Linguistics Geek Prints

Conjugate like a Puritan

Polly txt speak

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

I will study my speling words...

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

Punctuation Police

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."

Wordplay: In The Bag.

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

Lessons in Prehistory.

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

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

"Nuts to you, too."

"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."

"Darn autocorrect!"

Sometimes Y Turn

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

Sign that says 'This is not a sign.'

Ironing Punctuation

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

"We're developing a plan to fix this."