• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I feel like spelling it ‘Ladder’ the second time would have made it work better, leaving the reader to figure out what happened (“homophones” are after all mentioned at the end).

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      6 months ago

      That would ruin the joke, since speech bubbles match what is literally said.

      If latter and ladder were actually homophones it would word as is.