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when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. [ Heraclitus ]
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Are you fond of Music? Here's some language play within the context of music. Ready? Here we go:
Now, suppose Ella Fitzgerald had married Garry Funt...what would her married name have been like? And if Carly Simon had married Art Garfunkel?...what would her married name have been like? And what if Phoebe Snow had married Barry White?...what would her married name have been like? 
Now, a different instance of word play, that is, unrelated to music:
English has at times been ironically described as "a language separating the United States from England." Here's a brief anecdote that brings this sort of comment to mind:
He marveled at all he saw and, to ensure he'd derive the utmost from that first journey abroad, he wanted to try everything--in addition, of course to photographing it all. When he saw the Thames, he simply "had" to feel what the water was like, so he could tell about it back home. In his excitement, he jumped in the river without hesitation, totally distracted from the fact that he did not know how to swim!... Well, it did not take him long to realize that he was on his way to drowning! He obviously started shouting for help. It occurred to him, though, in the peak of his agony, that the British fellows he had been talking to seemed to use shall and will differently from the way the folks back home did. So, praying for his life, he then shouted as loud as he could: Some fellows heard him, stopped, but just stared at the chap in the water, in curiosity. The nearly drowning man pleaded even louder: More people gathered, but no one budged a finger to save that poor man about to drown! Everyone merely stared at him... By now, the nearly drowning tourist was in sheer agony. In a last, desperate attempt to save his life, the tourist switched the verbs around as he shouted: And some twenty eager fellows promptly jumped into the water! This is how the choice of auxiliary verbs has once managed to save a drowning man's life!:) Do you know why? 
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