Language Skills Mugs

'Marcia, do we have anyone in legal who's fluent in both 'Mumbo' and 'Jumbo'?'

"I'm a great ... umm... like ... umm... like... umm ... communicator."

"The English language is a movable feast... some people dine on it... some just take bites."

"Are you sure they'll be able to read English?"

"You sure know how to talk to sales clerks!"

"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.' "

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

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

Campaign for Plain English

Pirate boy reciting the alphabet

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

Thru versus Through Traffic

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

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

Punctuation Police

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

Backfire

Assault 'n' Vinegar

A Copy Editor and His Dog

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

Restaurant Francais: All you can pronounce £30.

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

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

What's normal?

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

Lesser known greek gods,

"No, I really thought each sentence ended with an emoji!"

"If Google Translate is correct, they want our women and our cattle."

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

'The Questioner'

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