Alice in Wonderland Wordplay?

Cristopher Gavalis: Those are called puns. Words that sound like the words they are supposed to be representing, that swing the meaning off in a different direction.People used to get things like puns, when people were still literate.Now we live in the age of Harry Potter, and books are simply the thing you buy before you go see the movie version....Show more

Virgilio Echter: Lewis Carroll, the author, was also a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford University.

Mitchel Demry: It is called satire. Lewis Carroll's words are not meant to make sense. Just look at his characters. Do they make sense? No they don't. Does his poem Jabberwocky make sense. Absolutely not. He writes to poke fun at the political climate of his time, and for the readers to have fun, not to make sense of anything.

Rosalia Hibler: I don't get it either - wow I'm confused! But I love the movie!

Corey Rohleder: That was one of the most messed up books I have ever read. I think! that Lewis Carroll was on something crazy when he wrote it.

Raymundo Kyser: This is not an example of either puns or satire. Carroll is employing malapropism - replacing words with similar-sounding but different-meaning words - as a literary device for the humorous effect.

Charline Granes: The idea is that "You cannot get it" because the author used words that are not the real ones. So, it seems that the aurthor maybe was not mathematically inclined (like me!) and so the concepts were beyond him. Or else, if he DID get math, he knew plenty of people who do not.