Aspiring Linguists Mugs

Baby spelling out 'I Want It All' with bricks.

"That's Brian Eggleston, de facto leader of the playground intelligentsia."

"The teacher expects too much of me. She wants me to give it the old college try, and I'm only in grade school."

"We're to stop talking about 'budget cuts'. Apparently it's depressing for staff and clients..."

"...L...uh, M...uh Q...how come there are so many darn letters in the alphabet anyway?"

'It's my application to Harvard...'

He can't talk yet, but he still gets the last word.

You got into the college of my choice, and I got into the college of your choice. Now if we could just work something out...

'Yes, sure, certainly, you bet, of course, yeah, right, yep....'

"The extent of your extracurricular activities in high school, may very well be participation in regular program of oral hygiene using an effective decay preventaative tooth paste, but that won't get you into a good university."

"I can never remember, does 'barge' have one snake-head jackal, or two?"

'My parents couldn't afford to send me to college, so they let me spend a night at a Ramada.'

"Ambitions. . . To . . . Er. . . Um . . . Become. . . Er. . . Um. . . A. . . Er. . . Um . . . Motivational. . . Er. . . Um. . . Speaker."

"The counselor wasn't much help about getting into college. All he said was to study hard and get good grades."

'I don't like this part. 'Please find enclosed the inclusion of my enclosure'.'

"I was able to get you a 2-book deal."

"Is it ne'er do wells, or ne'ers do well?"

'Her being multi-lingual has it's drawbacks I'm afraid-she nags me in SIX languages!'

A girl climbs a ladder of books

Overly wordy travel.

"You don't need to sacrifice good grammar in order to talk dirty."

'I realize that you're upset that Oprah hasn't reviewed your new book on her show. But you are on MY show, so why don't you tell us what inspired you to write 'Overcoming Disappointment and Resentment.''

Simultaneous translation.

"Your ordering in French would have been more romantic if you didn't have to read it off your phone."

Boss hands over document: 'There are too many abbreviations in your report ? can you rewrite it asap?'

"Spell "orange." "The fruit or the colour, Miss?"

'How come it's always me who has his name taken?'

"I'm home deer!"

'I think it's finally accurate to say that literally everyone is misusing the word 'literally'.'

'We don't seem to be doing well in the foreign beverage market. However, due to a mistranslation of our slogan we've become the leading international provider of embalming fluid.'

"You got 136? It says here you're genius if you get a 132."

'Mail' and 'Femail' mailbags.

'Watch this - I told him the correct pronunciation of Pinot Noir is peanut noyer.'

Concrete action v local solution

Them's fightin' words, mister