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.”
Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs
I'm a supporter of my free speech. - Howard Stern
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
English Wrestling Champion: A lord of the ring - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. - Malcolm Muggeridge
If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
Humour is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. - Malcolm Muggeridge
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
There's nothing like an English weirdo. We have the best nutters in the world. - Sharon Osbourne
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden
A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
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
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones
Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. - Jane Austen
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. - Aeschylus
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin
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
I'm a supporter of my free speech. - Howard Stern
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
English Wrestling Champion: A lord of the ring - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. - Malcolm Muggeridge
If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
Humour is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. - Malcolm Muggeridge
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
There's nothing like an English weirdo. We have the best nutters in the world. - Sharon Osbourne
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden
A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
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
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones
Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. - Jane Austen
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. - Aeschylus
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin
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
see also College, Language & School Sections
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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