Thank you for the "lack thereof" explanation. I still have trouble fully understand these phrases. As you can see, English is not my native language (French is) I am trying to improve my English skills.
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Update 3:if you don't wanna help just leave, please don't bait me into arguing about my nick, btw, I don't see why I should explain to you about my nick. it's totally irrelevent.
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pun intended means it was supposed to be funny and no pun intended means it wasn't supposed to be funny. Touche sort of means to tell a person you beat me yet that was a great comeback or response. cliche means predictable
A pun is when you make a joke about something. Pun 'intended' or "no pun intended" is used when you might be talking about something and make a reference to something your talking about that can be taken in a joking way. If someone says pun intended they meant to make the joke, unintended they did not mean to make a joke, even though they did.
Touche is used when you might be in an argument and someone says a comeback and saying "touche" is you are acknowledging they had like a good comeback.
A 'cliche' is a figure of speech that is over used. Or just like a phrase or anything that is overused.
Touche - is French and a fencing term and acknowledges that the other person won their point.
Cliche - is an often used catch phrase that becomes tired and worn.
pun intended - means the double meaning of a word or phrase is intentional or meant by using that word
pun not intended - the double meaning of a word used was accidental or incidental
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The best way to become fluent in English (or any language) is to READ. Read books, magazines, newspapers. The internet isn't the best because of the horrible spelling and grammar used, but better than nothing.
A pun is a type of wordplay in which one word has a double meaning or if a a word is replaced with a word that sounds similar to the intended word.
For example, puns are used in jokes a lot:
Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
"All right" can refer to being healthy or it can refer to the lack of a left side (he has no left side, so he is all right (side))
OR
He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.
In this case, the pun is a play on words (Mercedes bends vs. Mercedes Benz, the car)
In speech, "pun intended" means that the speaker deliberately put a pun in his speech. "no pun" means that it was just coincidental.
"Touche" is a retort used when someone says something clever in an argument and you have nothing to say back.
John: "I don't understand why you always listen to Michael Bolton"
Mike: "Wait, don't you own all of his albums?"
John: "Touche!"
A "Cliche" is an overused phrase, axiom, or aphorism, such as:
"Practice makes perfect"
"Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today"
Hope that helped.
A Frenchman who calls himself "English Dude" and asks about the meaning of "touche" and "cliche"? Bizarre!
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