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.
The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand
The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill
The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese
Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. - Lindsey Graham
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
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed
England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov
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 think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy
"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
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
Grammar: the difference between Feeling Your Nuts and Feeling You're Nuts. - Unknown
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown
Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell
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
The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand
The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill
The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese
Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. - Lindsey Graham
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
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed
England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov
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 think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy
"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
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
Grammar: the difference between Feeling Your Nuts and Feeling You're Nuts. - Unknown
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown
Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell
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
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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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