A linguistics professor was lecturing his class.
“In English,” he explained, “a double
negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However,” the professor continued, “there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.”
A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”
A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. - Lindsey Graham
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King
The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber
To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict
When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence. - Luqman
The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine
There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate
If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright
Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard
The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles. - Garrison Keillor
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie
The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri
No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country - oughta be de-exported the hell outta here! - Archie Bunker
Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown
Grammar: 1. Lives with granpar; 2. The difference between Feeling Your Nuts and Feeling You’re Nuts. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. - C S Lewis
Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. - Lindsey Graham
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King
The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber
To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict
When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence. - Luqman
The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine
There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate
If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright
Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard
The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles. - Garrison Keillor
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie
The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri
No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country - oughta be de-exported the hell outta here! - Archie Bunker
Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown
Grammar: 1. Lives with granpar; 2. The difference between Feeling Your Nuts and Feeling You’re Nuts. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. - C S Lewis
Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Punctuation Matters
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