Sociolinguistics Gifts

"I detect an accent – money?"

'May I say how delightful it is to hear he use of the word 'Egad'.'

"Excuse me! It's 'personflu' if you don't mind!"

Department of No One Could Have Anticipated.

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

Opportunities in Coronatimes

Lynching on social media

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Solicitor speaks legal jargon and has a translator who tells client: 'You haven't a hope!'

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Thru versus Through Traffic

"Monsieur, si vous plaît. I'm sure I ordered the fusilli and not the Fusilier."

Clown teaches how to speak Jibberish

Big Tex Silver Saddle Restaurant advertises 'BBQ, $10, Chatter in a Vanishing Regional Dialect $1.00 Extra.'

Oligarchy

"You and your, 'why bother to learn another language. Everyone in the known universe speaks, Zarconian'!"

Rich man vomiting euros to a beggar.

Punctuation Police

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

Restaurant Francais: All you can pronounce £30.

Peter's Pitas - now with pickled peppers.

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

What's normal?

'The Questioner'

"‘Extra vile old ox’? No, sir – it stands for ‘extra virgin olive oil.’"

"For heaven's sake, Ogden, it's vacation time! Must you make your little lists even on vacation time?"

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

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

"Dad, please tell me again about that mass production and consumerism."

'I've been called some mean things as a baby boomer, but 'Pig in the Python' really hurts.'

"Just give me your wallet. Trust me, you do not want to deal with my misplaced sense of entitlement."

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

T. S. Eliot Meets Beavis And Butthead

"If I 'HAD IT ALL' it would it be enough?"

What We Thought Were Canals Are Deep Prejudices and Inequities.