Quotes About Language

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

If someone took the 'F' letter off me, I'd be ucked.

Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.

How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dis-ing them anyhow?

I've always been so intrigued by French language and how it completely changes you, because of cultural context, because of humor.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

Last night I ordered a whole meal in French. Even the waiter was amazed - it was a Chinese restaurant!

A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?

Forget I ever referred to my mother and screwing in the same sentence. That's just .... wrong. On so many levels.

No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place.

It's funny when people say something is "unreal" about something that is, in reality, real. I'm so guilty of it, it's real!

Do u sometimes feel dumb or duffer are inadequate words to describe some people?How about DUMFER?

English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

Emma Harrison, Phoebe Who?

I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that... But it's what I meant.

I jumped up and down and swore violently in seventeen languages.

And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.

Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.

At the end of the second week they were still working and Arretapec, Conway and their patient were being talked, whistled, cheeped and grunted about in every language in use at the hospital.

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.

A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or Ms. Using the term: Ma'am could piss her off.