Language Study Prints

'You're not speaking french...you're speaking English with a French accent.'

"Hello, I'm Clifton Latimer."

Foreign language tape.

Dictionary Sale - Now in High Definition.

Ironing Punctuation

"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."

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

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

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

Campaign for Plain English

Pirate boy reciting the alphabet

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

Torturing the English Language

Thru versus Through Traffic

Boneheads! I never said I was bringing ten condiments!

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

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

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Backfire

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

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

Assault 'n' Vinegar

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

Punctuation Police

Restaurant Francais: All you can pronounce £30.

What's normal?

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

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

"There's only one 'L' in colosseum."

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

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

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