Language Innovator Mugs

'What's going on? -- First you say we should show originality, and then you mark my spelling wrong!'

"The creative writing part is that I've created new ways to spell words."

'Our customer service was lousy, but from now on, we'll give the personal touch. Let's write to 'Hey lassies and dudes, what's up?'

'I wonder what it's like to text, 'OMG'?'

Text Speak

"Oh, it has to be la señorita, does it? Still trying to perpetuate the fiction of biological gender identity, are we?"

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

"We've decided that it will be better for his later development if we speak to him only in legalese."

'I've been called some mean things as a baby boomer, but 'Pig in the Python' really hurts.'

"Oh, look- French! Let's try it."

"He doesn't really talk yet, but he does some sound bites."

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

A secretary at a desk with a nameplate the says Dot Com.

'Amscray,fuzzbrain - no carnivores allowed

"Sorry I'm late. I overslept." "Is that even a real word?"

'Whoooa,MAN,check out this STORM! It's PELTING down!'

"I know! I know! I K-n-o-w!. . . Um, what was the question?"

'Stick them up...'

Henry the amazing talking dog.

'She posted her first blog today.'

'This is the fun part...waiting to find out just what we've ordered.

'I made a hundred on the Spanish test. Gracias.'

'I'm going to add to the confusion. I'm going to sign my name upside-down.'

'Alphabet soup? What's alphabet?'

Two vending machines for fisherman: 'Live Bait' next to 'Dead as a Doornail Bait'

Say it with flowers - available in any language.

His Hers Pers Vis Xyrs Hirs TBD

"Well, I've emailed, faxed, and phoned Dobson. Maybe I should just walk down the hall and talk to him..."

'The meaning of life? sorry, I can only answer 'true or false' questions.'

'It's not scatting if they're under age two.'

'That's not what I meant by 'IV'.'

'To them, capital punishment means making them use proper capitalization.'

'What does coincide mean?' 'It's what you do when it starts to rain.'

'Instead of cubicles, we call them interconnected productivity centres.'

How a poet works