<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">"<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">From online discussions to adverts, Chinese culture is full of puns. But the country’s print and broadcast watchdog has ruled that there is nothing funny about them. <font color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17.2610397338867px;" class="">It has banned wordplay on the grounds that it breaches the law on standard spoken and written Chinese, makes promoting cultural heritage harder and may mislead the public – especially children.</span></font><font color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.26103973388672px;" class="">”</span></font><font color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17.2610397338867px;" class=""> </span></font></span><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17.2610397338867px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17.2610397338867px;" class="">Full story here: </span></font></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/28/china-media-watchdog-bans-wordplay-puns?CMP=share_btn_tw" class="">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/28/china-media-watchdog-bans-wordplay-puns?CMP=share_btn_tw</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
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