Translation Aficionado Gifts

"Jacques, some of us don't care whether 'water' is masculine or feminine."

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

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

'Thank goodness you were wrong mom, dad says a period is what comes at the end of a sentence.'

Wordplay: In The Bag.

'I know we're inchworms, but let's get into the spirit of this! Change is good!'

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

"It lost a little something in translation."

"Oui, c'est bon. It is, how you Americans say, 'Magically Delicious'."

We Will Beat Any Genuine Quote...

Staff Yearbook

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

'Do it write the first time.'

Dyslexia is no longer a disorder...

'Thank god for the spellchecker!'

"They're home...the party's over!"

"Want to find out if you're also king of the swamp?"

"I was punctuating sentences long before you guys came along!"

Proof Reading

"Knowing all the weather rock lore doesn't really count toward the weather badge."

Scouse For Beginners

'He migrates through every year about this time. Just sits there and watches. We leave him alone and he leaves us alone...'

A Transformer for grownups

For Pete's sake, Shirley, stop acting so smug about "getting carded." We were in a library.

Spellng Bee

'I think I have aixelsyd.'

Oxford Lexicon of Excuses for Bad Grammar and Faulty Spelling.

'Now that we've learned to talk, we can have FOCUS GROUPS!'

"Well that answers that question!"

'You understand, of course, that my memoirs must be written in ELITE type.'

'Yes, sure, certainly, you bet, of course, yeah, right, yep....'

"To maintain proper respect for management, you have to call me 'Boss Joey!' Unless, you know, you don't want to."

Exclamation Marks Chasing the Question Mark.

A tour guide speaks in hieroglyphs,

'Sorry.. I don't date lower-case types.'