Language Evolution Explorers Gifts

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

Campaign for Plain English

"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. . .

'I made a good grade in creative writing, but I didn't do very well in creative spelling.'

The Evolution Of Man.

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

"Wa-wa. . . wa-wa. . . wa-wa. . ."

"Nd how did tht mke u feel?"

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

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

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

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"?

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

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

"Don't forget to call it a 'procedure'—it makes it less scary."

A Semicolon.

"Monsieur has just ordered a vasectomy..."

'I can't talk to my wife - all she says is `Baaah! Baaah!`!

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

Communicating with clients without using buzzwords posed a challenge for the consultants.

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

Apostrophe. . . Apostropher

Maternity ward: 'Baby talk spoken here.'

"The first goal of our ad hoc committee should be to learn Latin."

"I lost the spelling bee on the word 'gangsta.' "

Dinosaurs of the Palindromic Era.

'English is their second language.'

"What does 'inexplicable' mean..?"

"I don't understand what people are saying up here."

We hadn't realised your body language was French....

Yep, that's me in a pea pod! In a pea pod�?? I think "nutshell" has been vastly overused.

Frenchman Speaking to Englishman

The Emergence Of Language

"It's eagle before snake except after feather."