Linguistics Geek Gifts

A 'DIVERSION' sign points to a crazy guy.

Conjugate like a Puritan

Polly txt speak

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

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

I will study my speling words...

Punctuation Police

'Why can't we have a texting bee?'

Someone who knows apostrophes

What's normal?

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

'What amazes me most is that years ago I couldn't even spell teacher - now I are one!'

Smith Academy. A Tradition of Excellense.

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

"He's sworn never to say Boudicca, ShrOwsbury, whoM, or narrative."

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

"Nuts to you, too."

Conflating Science and Grammar. The boy threw the ball. What grammatical role does "ball" play in this sentence? An object in motion!

Lessons in Prehistory.

"Sorry I'm late. I overslept." "Is that even a real word?"

"Let's fall in love and live in the subjunctive."

Desert $2.75. See? -- It wasn't a typo.

Wordplay: In The Bag.

"So, hw ws yr smmr?"

Contemporary English Lesson: The Cat was Sat on the Mat.

"You can use the alphabet to text. You can use the alphabet to tweet. Why can't you use the alphabet to spell?"

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

Harv's general clumsiness with prepositions comes back to haunt him.

"I've just invented the question mark."

Sometimes Y Turn

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

"Darn autocorrect!"

Ironing Punctuation

Sign that says 'This is not a sign.'

Malaprop Man! Adventures. Malaprop Man! Where have you been? At a stupor her comet confection! Did many of your fellow heroes show up? We had a great turnabout! Backman and the Incredible Bulk were there! So was Caption Americ, the Flush, Wander Woman and Plasterman! Very impressive. Who was the most popular with the fans? I think I was the main distraction! I have no doubt at all about that!