Language And Linguistics Gifts

Fencing Venn Graph

Pets. Puppy Yums. Fish. I need parrot sales figures and a kitten inventory estimate. I'll do a polly graph and a cat scan!

Jane regretted not having invested more time in learning management speak.

A Puppet Named Juan

"Remember the golden rule: more buzzwords, less real words."

"Bert, I'm confused. What happens after we circle the wagons, tighten our belts and walk a mile in our customer's shoes? Is that when the chickens come home to roost?"

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

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

Campaign for Plain English

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

Thru versus Through Traffic

Torturing the English Language

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

Clown teaches how to speak Jibberish

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

'I can't force jocose if I'm not feeling it.'

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

Boneheads! I never said I was bringing ten condiments!

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

Punctuation Police

Backfire

A Copy Editor and His Dog

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

Assault 'n' Vinegar

"The good news is that we do have a little wiggle room."

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

Restaurant Francais: All you can pronounce £30.

Peter's Pitas - now with pickled peppers.

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

What's normal?

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

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

Lesser known greek gods,