Aspiring Linguists Prints

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."

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

"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?"

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....'

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

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

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

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

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

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

Overly wordy travel.

A girl climbs a ladder of books

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

'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.''

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

Simultaneous translation.

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

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

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

"I'm home deer!"

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

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

'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."

"'I sent this to you through the mail to say I hope your day is swell.' What's wrong with that?"

'Mail' and 'Femail' mailbags.

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