Linguistic Explorers Prints

'When did 'dude' become an adverb and an adjective?'

''Language' is a great invention, but I keep getting syntax errors.'

"Yo! Check it out"

At the end of the day everything on the table is low-hanging fruit.

Frenchman Speaking to Englishman

The Nanuit Have 2,027 Words For Snow, But, After Awhile, They Just Talk About Something Else...

Bilingual

Campaign for Plain English

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

5pm Happy Hour. 6pm discussion: what is true happiness?

Why we need poetry. . .

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

Ruddy bloggers!

Kissing the Blarney Stone.

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

'Instead of cubicles, we call them interconnected productivity centres.'

"We're to stop talking about 'budget cuts'. Apparently it's depressing for staff and clients..."

'I don't like to brag, but I'm the guy who coined the phrase, 'Honey, I'm Home'.'

"These meetings were a lot shorter before we invented compound sentences."

"'Parent' should always be an action verb."

Reading: Phonics. Using phonics, you learn to read by the sounds of letters. Any questions? Yes. Why does "phonics" begin with "p-h" and not with "f"?

"I'm stuck for the 'June-moon' rhyme in Serbo-Croatian."

An Intimate Union forms between Napster and the Pygmy Sub-Area of Central Africa...

'It says here you can talk trash in five languages.'

'It's okay, they're with me.'

A Semicolon.

Conspiracy Theory Books

"For today's lesson, you're going to teach me about pronouns."

'I can't talk to my wife - all she says is `Baaah! Baaah!`!

"What - you got As in Maths, Nature, Science and English? Son, haven't you watched the news or looked online - if you want to succeed nowadays you have to be dumb as dirt!"

Apostrophe. . . Apostropher

Promised Land Signpost

'I don't like this part. 'Please find enclosed the inclusion of my enclosure'.'

Oh look, Marv - We're just in time for the running of the fools!

An Eskimo ice fishing on a golf course.