As a joke, is
A seal walks into a club…
an example of semantic ambiguity, lexical ambiguity, or the expression I just recently discovered, lexical semantic ambiguity? Or put another way, is lexical ambiguity a sub-category of semantic ambiguity?
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As a joke, is
A seal walks into a club…
an example of semantic ambiguity, lexical ambiguity, or the expression I just recently discovered, lexical semantic ambiguity? Or put another way, is lexical ambiguity a sub-category of semantic ambiguity?
Best Answer
Following Wikipedia:
The joke in question is based on precisely two meanings of the word "club", making this a lexical ambiguity.