Digital Linguist Prints

"Does she mean LOL funny or LOL strange?"

'Now you're talking my language.'

"Siri, two plus two?"

Solicitor speaks legal jargon and has a translator who tells client: 'You haven't a hope!'

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Thru versus Through Traffic

Torturing the English Language

Clown teaches how to speak Jibberish

"Monsieur, si vous plaît. I'm sure I ordered the fusilli and not the Fusilier."

Big Tex Silver Saddle Restaurant advertises 'BBQ, $10, Chatter in a Vanishing Regional Dialect $1.00 Extra.'

"You and your, 'why bother to learn another language. Everyone in the known universe speaks, Zarconian'!"

Punctuation Police

Restaurant Francais: All you can pronounce £30.

Peter's Pitas - now with pickled peppers.

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

What's normal?

'The Questioner'

"For heaven's sake, Ogden, it's vacation time! Must you make your little lists even on vacation time?"

"‘Extra vile old ox’? No, sir – it stands for ‘extra virgin olive oil.’"

"If Google Translate is correct, they want our women and our cattle."

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

'Roget it's fantastic, superb, extraordinary...where on earth did you get the idea?'

Text Culture

Ninedency: A budding tendency

'Who teaches apostrophe usage?'

"Let's fall in love and live in the subjunctive."

'No, I'm the marriage counselor. What you need is the semantics counselor down the hall.'

Lessons in Prehistory.

Conflating Science and Grammar. The boy threw the ball. What grammatical role does "ball" play in this sentence? An object in motion!

'Stick them up...'

Contemporary English Lesson: The Cat was Sat on the Mat.

'There it is, 'Twerk', right next to 'Twerp'.'

The Modern Novel.

'Your stab at ordering the wine in French went well.'

"Various entrances to the gates of Hell."