Linguistic Adventurers Gifts

Campaign for Plain English

'I made a good grade in creative writing, but I didn't do very well in creative spelling.'

"Would you relax? All you guys are so tense. I just wanted to tell you to your face how enigmatic I find you."

Why we need poetry. . .

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."

'Just follow these simple instructions.'

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

'Amscray,fuzzbrain - no carnivores allowed

The Family Joules: Part 21

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

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

'Stick them up...'

Henry the amazing talking dog.

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

'the selling of seashells by the seashore was sluggish.'

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

'Mom and dad...if someone threw a rock at me, it would really be like killing two birds with one stone.' 'I told you if we had a child, he'd be a wise-quacker.'

Raphnrrf? Raphnrrf? Umpha? Frfee? Maamr? Pick.

His Hers Pers Vis Xyrs Hirs TBD

Say it with flowers - available in any language.

"Wa-wa. . . wa-wa. . . wa-wa. . ."

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

'Alphabet soup? What's alphabet?'

Turkey to human dictionary - 'Quiet!!! You don't realize what you're saying!'

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

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

'Give it to me straight, Doc... is it pronounceable?'

"To hear the ocean in English, press one. Para Espanol ..."

Shrewsbury - pronunciation

"Go on, say it again, 'I love you' in Armadillo."

The Oxford Comma Coin

Signing the declaration of independence.