Urban Linguist Pillows

"No, Todd — I’m not ‘fronting,’ I'm pregnant!"

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

WTF?

Actually, Mama was her third word. Buy Now were her first two.

"I'll have to get someone younger to look at your résumé. I'm not fluent in emoji."

'It says here you can talk trash in five languages.'

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

"I can never remember, does 'barge' have one snake-head jackal, or two?"

God sends a text message: 'OMME!'

'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?'

Street: The Magazine for Homeless People

"It's just a dinner table conversation. Must you refer to it as 'Talking Off-line'."

Rashomon of West 84th Street

'Hello! I don't believe I've bored you yet...'

'I don't trust that guy.'

'Remember when we referred to a good thing as being 'swell' instead of 'cool'?'

'Do you not have a dictionary?'

"'I sent this to you through the mail to say I hope your day is swell.' What's wrong with that?"

Department of Linguistics.

Kink

"Nobody understands my texts."

Every time she bent over Ben would check out Kate's diphthong.

The New Elite. . .

"Maybe we should start thinking outside the box..."

Mugger mugging fast food.

"The most our country can give you at this time is perhaps a few more vowels."

Kwick Loans Street Vendor

Blind man says hello in braille.

"3:07 AM fellow earthling!"

'I'd invite you in but my box is a mess.'

Community notice board.

Couple flirting in Text Language.

"Is it wrong for me to want to vote?"