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 speak two languages, English and Body. - Mae West
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand
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
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
Germlish: Training done using a mixture of English & German - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The English winter - ending in July, to recommence in August. - Lord Byron
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. - Ravi Zacharias
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel
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
If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright
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
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy
I am going to give a long speech today. I haven't had time to prepare a short one. - Winston Churchill
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
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
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde
If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell
Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there. - AJ Gossip
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
The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown
Isn't it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an' the English brought in the fleas. - Frank McCourt
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. - John Wycliffe
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
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft
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
I speak two languages, English and Body. - Mae West
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand
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
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
Germlish: Training done using a mixture of English & German - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The English winter - ending in July, to recommence in August. - Lord Byron
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. - Ravi Zacharias
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel
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
If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright
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
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy
I am going to give a long speech today. I haven't had time to prepare a short one. - Winston Churchill
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
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
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde
If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell
Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there. - AJ Gossip
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
The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown
Isn't it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an' the English brought in the fleas. - Frank McCourt
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. - John Wycliffe
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
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft
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
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Basic Rules of English Spelling and Grammar
Books Never Written
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Cyberbulbs
Double Negative Education
First Impressions
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Little Johnny’s Beautiful Examples
One Thousand Words
Practice Safe Text
Punctuation Matters
The Importance of Correct Punctuation
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