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>does english have cool wordplay like japanese does?
Yes of course. Shakespeare was famous for that over four hundred years ago. I suspect it's different from Japanese since their written language uses symbols to represent words or concepts, whereas in the west we use symbols (letters) to represent sounds, and string them together to make words. So whereas in the west a pun makes use of two words that sound the same but mean different things, in Japan you may have two words that sound different and mean different things, but the kanji looks the same or very similar.

I suspect this can often cause Japanese jokes to get lost in translation, and sometimes you'll see margin notes to this effect in mangas that have been translated to English.

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