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.”
Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman
Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs
The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill
The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese
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
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
"The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" had the big fat English actor, Charles Lawson. - Archie Bunker
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie
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
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin
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
Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs
The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill
The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese
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
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
"The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" had the big fat English actor, Charles Lawson. - Archie Bunker
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie
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
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin
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
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Basic Rules of English Spelling and Grammar
Books Never Written
Commas Save Lives
Cyberbulbs
Double Negative Education
First Impressions
I Like Cooking
Little Johnny’s Beautiful Examples
One Thousand Words
Practice Safe Text
Punctuation Matters
The Importance of Correct Punctuation
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