Terminology Geek Pillows

"Hibernation sounds old fashioned. Now we call it binge sleeping."

Polly txt speak

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

I will study my speling words...

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

Someone who knows apostrophes

Surgeon finds a doohickey on the patient's thingamabob.

'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."

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

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

"I can't find my other boot. I need to be rebooted."

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

"I've just invented the question mark."

"Darn autocorrect!"

Sometimes Y Turn

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

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

'The meaning of life? sorry, I can only answer 'true or false' questions.'

Fred interpreted the word compact as a verb, not as an adjective.

'What does coincide mean?' 'It's what you do when it starts to rain.'

"What's another word for 'thesaurus'?"

'It's not scatting if they're under age two.'

"Call me, Ishmael."

"Mine's bigger than yours."

"If you want to sing in our band, you'll have to overcome your fear of using double negatives."

"These meetings were a lot shorter before we invented compound sentences."

"So I'm like, doesn't anyone speak proper English any more?"

English Lesson No. 1