Language Studies Prints

'We're here to question mar.'

'Do you always have to shout? Well? Do you? Huh?'

Cliche Workshop, "Who wants to get the ball rolling?"

'You flunked French?' 'Yes, there was too much Pierre pressure.'

"Hello - I'm on a train of thought."

"I'm the Ghost of Christmas Grammar, and I see you're having trouble with the past, present, and future tenses."

"I've tried really hard, but I'm sorry - I just can't bring myself to accept 'text' as a past participle."

English speaking driver.

The Ekert Saga: 'Oh, thank goodness a grammar cop is on patrol to keep us all safe woo-hoo!!'

"Yes Billy, you have a question..."

Your salary as a research assistant is commensurate on your ability of spell, define, and delineate the work 'commensurate.'

Shoes 'to be soled as a pair'.

Staff Yearbook

Mincing machine

"'Pobre Pablo! Hoy esta Enfermo.' Can you tell me what I just said, Cruz?"

"See this right here? That is the racist bone in your body."

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.' "

"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."

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Backfire

Punctuation Police

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

Assault 'n' Vinegar

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

Restaurant Francais: All you can pronounce £30.