Crossword-Solution: WORDPLAY 8 letters, 21 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

But it is also true that hackers use humorous wordplay to make strong, sometimes combative statements about what they feel.

European hackers report that this happens partly because the English terms make finer distinctions than are available in their native vocabularies, and partly because deliberate language-crossing makes for amusing wordplay.

Spenser's immense command of the language, and his quicksilver gift for wordplay and puns, allow him, when he chooses, to pack great complexities of meaning into a line or even a single word, and in this his punctuation is frequently his accomplice.

Bence Jones truly remarks, 'he laid open all his mind and the whole of his character, and what can be made known can scarcely fail to charm every one by its loveliness, its truthfulness, and its earnestness.' Abbott and he sometimes swerved into wordplay about love; but up to 1820, or thereabouts, the passion was potential merely.

Zangwill's best style--a style replete with wordplay or pun--but her setting killed her, and she was soon "done for." Perhaps "Jinny the Carrier" was a joke.