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[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One of the journals I submitted to explicitly banned puns or wordplay in their titles, which felt unnecessarily grumpy

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Half of the most famous papers in my discipline have good pun titles.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What's your discipline?

I'm not aware of a lot of fun wordplay, but we do make some good jokes sometimes.