Early Language Explorer Prints

'He knows a few words, but he can't really process them yet.'

'Well, there's something you don't see every day'

"Would you relax? All you guys are so tense. I just wanted to tell you to your face how enigmatic I find you."

Why we need poetry. . .

Physician tending a mummy.

'Don't ask me why but he feels a great deal of pride in calling it his 'man-cave'.'

'It's an extinction notice.'

Tourists in Egypt

'the selling of seashells by the seashore was sluggish.'

"Life after death"

'When do they learn to stand upright?'

'As everyone knows, scientists are at their peaks early in their careers.'

'I don't like to brag, but I'm the guy who coined the phrase, 'Honey, I'm Home'.'

Souvenirs.

"These meetings were a lot shorter before we invented compound sentences."

"I'm stuck for the 'June-moon' rhyme in Serbo-Croatian."

'It says here you can talk trash in five languages.'

Reading: Phonics. Using phonics, you learn to read by the sounds of letters. Any questions? Yes. Why does "phonics" begin with "p-h" and not with "f"?

The Nanuit Have 2,027 Words For Snow, But, After Awhile, They Just Talk About Something Else...

"'Parent' should always be an action verb."

'Forget it lads. We've been refused planning permission for this one!'

A Semicolon.

"This is amazing! Roughly translated, it says 'King Tut was here o.k.'"

"Monsieur has just ordered a vasectomy..."

"Tut's outdone himself this time."

Books of Tablets

Excess Baggage: If you can draw, you don't have to know the local language.

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

I'm not sure which, but he's just invented either writing or vandalism.

"For today's lesson, you're going to teach me about pronouns."

'I'm inventing the wheel, and I'd like you to be my SPOKESMAN.'

Cavemen. Wheel being burnt with fire.

Apostrophe. . . Apostropher

Archimedes statue tipped up by a lever.

Another musical treatise from the 16th century is discovered.