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"Not only do they all speak fluent English, but they keep correcting your grammar."

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

"And the last little piggy cried, 'Oui, oui, oui' all the way home."

Unable to raise enough money for a trip to Paris, the Bartlesville High French Club had to settle for three days in Tulsa.

Pirate boy reciting the alphabet

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

"Sign my yearbook?"

'Mr. Dawson, about when I said 'don't pull any punches'...'

Restaurant Francais: All you can pronounce £30.

"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

'What amazes me most is that years ago I couldn't even spell teacher - now I are one!'

'I know about the birds and the bees. Tell me about the bears and the bulls.'

"Oh indeed I did: I went feral for a year when I was young. It taught me a lot about the world, but about myself too..."

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

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."

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

'I'm not happy with his latest school photo.'

Wishing Well, Wishing Good.

'Who teaches apostrophe usage?'

"How do you say ‘Where is the bathroom’ in Sanskrit?"

'Stick them up...'

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

Toy Shops and Educated Children

"Letters would be all right if they'd just let us leave them in alphabetical order."

"You can use the alphabet to text. You can use the alphabet to tweet. Why can't you use the alphabet to spell?"

"At some point, there's only so high you can raise the volume before you admit you're never gonna understand what British detectives are saying."

'Now that we've learned to talk, maybe we should establish some speech codes.'

"My master's vowel hyperarticulation is wearing a bit thin..."

'Sure, I took your shovel. Ethics doesn't kick in for a year or two.'

'Now, what's Italian for pizza?'

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

We're going on a first date. So many words are misused every day. Literally! I don't accept the use of imperfect language. Me either. Trying to fight it has no effect. It's all a mute point. Irregardless, I could care less. I had nothing farther to say.

With the aid of a tactical dictionary, and was finally able to make sense of what the salesman was saying.

"It's translated from French, so where it says 'Harvard Business School' it may mean 'jail.'"