Studying Language Prints

"I know what I look like. But I'm an atheist, and I reject your theocentric nomenclature."

"Remember the golden rule: more buzzwords, less real words."

"Bert, I'm confused. What happens after we circle the wagons, tighten our belts and walk a mile in our customer's shoes? Is that when the chickens come home to roost?"

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"And the last little piggy cried, 'Oui, oui, oui' all the way home."

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

Campaign for Plain English

Pirate boy reciting the alphabet

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

Thru versus Through Traffic

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

'I can't force jocose if I'm not feeling it.'

"The good news is that we do have a little wiggle room."

Punctuation Police

Backfire

Assault 'n' Vinegar

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

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Restaurant Francais: All you can pronounce £30.

What's normal?

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

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

Lesser known greek gods,

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

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

'The Questioner'

"No, I really thought each sentence ended with an emoji!"

"We've decided that it will be better for his later development if we speak to him only in legalese."