Childhood Linguists Prints

'Let me go over your symptoms again; you have a 'gugu' and you're feeling a little 'bugaga'.'

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

"So, what do you do for play?"

"Oh, Mrs. Horris, he just said his first words..!"

"I'm eating baklava through my balaclava!"

'Come on Jill, they say the water's well good.'

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

"I do like you, Peter, but interfacing is a very serious step."

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

'All I wanted to know is if that word was naughty.'

"As you can see, I've learned the alphabet."

"It's cute that yours has a Fire Island share, mine has the East Hampton Dream House."

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

Artichoking victim

Heart To Heart

"I think I've eaten something that hasn't agreed with me."

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

"Oh, it's just more white-male stuff."

Kid to other: 'It's been a crazy day. I caught a bug and tossed my cookies.'

Ernie, as a scientist you should say the birds are "making aggressive vocalizations," not "feuding with tweets."

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

Alice Through the Looking Glass - The Snap-Dragon-Fly

Overly wordy travel.

'They sort of grow on you.'

'Now with 30% less crap you can't even pronounce!'

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

"I'm home deer!"

"'Holy cow... She can't spell for #!@*. Is that a 'T' or an 'L'? This entire letter is a grammatical nightmare!"

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

Cut A Rug

'I just don't get that guy. Sometimes he sits with us... sometimes he doesn't.'

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

'Okay, and now in English!'

"You'll have to be more specific — my people have more than four hundred different words for snow cone."

Speech Impediment Cow