The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.
--Dave Kellett
So true.
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
--Doug Larson
Ha!
The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells."
--Author Unknown
Makes sense to me.
If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American.
--Author Unknown
Unfortunately, there's some truth to this. On the other hand, it's easier when everyone speaks the same language.
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As I can attest.
Our language is funny - a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing.
--J. Gustav White
And a double positive, "Yeah right," is a negative.
A different language is a different vision of life.
--Federico Fellini
Arabic is a great example of this: you answer "How are you?" with "Al-hamdulilla," meaning, "Praise God."
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