Linguistics Gifts

"You know your mistake? When they say 'speak,' you speak."

"...and our new drugs - Palistilap, Orfinifro and Kyriltliryk - are all palindromes."

Got idea. Talk better. Combine words. Make sentences.

'I say to hell with it. If it can't be said in English, it ain't worth saying at all.'

'It must be nice to be bilingual.'

Semantics - A classroom in which meanings are discussed (Actually, this is just a door. The classroom is on the other side of the door.)

"We'll start out by speaking in simple declarative sentences."

'Oh, it's an acronym for 'It Doesn't Stand For Anything'.'

'I'll never date another apostrophe... the last one was too possessive.'

'Gluteus Maximus, you're nothing but a bum.'

Tug of pronunciation: 'We say to-may-to...' 'We say to-mah-to...'

The First Sentence Fragment: 'Hey, don't -'

'Yes you did, Mike. You just said 'perchance.' And yesterday you called me 'my good fellow.' Twice.'

Autumn: A Time for Reflection

"This is Daddy, honey. That was Daddy's office voice."

Future Tents

Slobbish man says to woman: 'Couch potato is a deeply offensive term - we prefer furniture-based leisure prioritizers.'

'The total failure of language.'

"By George she's got it"

Banoonoos: 'They've been phonetically modified.'

'I hated to do it, but conflicts like this are inevitable without a logical language.'

"It doesn't have a damn thing to do with political correctness, pal. I'm a sausage,and that guy's a wienie."

'Oxymoron'

'I heard he was a thesaurus editor.'

Communication issues.

'No use talking to him. He only speaks Latin.'

'Apparently, the locals have over 40 different words for snow!'

Let's learn English.

'You ssspeak funny! How come you don't have a lisssp?'

NLP The Power of Words - 'That was quite a powerful one.'

Save the definite article.

'Word up homey!'

"Don't listen. It's a red herring."

"Dog...God. God...dog. Cat...tac."

"It's not icky - it's tactile."