In all fairness to pupils throughout the land, I must point out that
slaughtering the English language is a practice that is not limited opnly to
students. An astonishing number of grownups blithely go about murdering the
King's English without any inkling that they are committing a serious crime.
slaughtering the English language is a practice that is not limited opnly to
students. An astonishing number of grownups blithely go about murdering the
King's English without any inkling that they are committing a serious crime.
Related:
- Many ALMOST Useful Facts:
** Debra Winger was the voice of E.
T. ** Pearls melt in vinegar ** It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.... - Confusing English...
No wonder the English language is so very difficult to learn.
I sometimes wonder how we manage to communicate at all!... - Facts most people are content to live without knowing
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one can explain why.... - W H Y C O P S H A T E Y O U <<<<&l
< -if you have to ask get out of the way- Have you ever been stopped by a traffic cop and, while he was writing a ticket or giving you a warning, you got the feeling that he would just love to yank you out of the car, right through the window, and smash your face into the front fender?... - The World According to Student Bloopers'
by Richard Lederer
St.
Paul's School (Spring 1987, Verbatim, The Language Quarterly, Vol.... - English language
Let's face it -- English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburge... - At my high school (many years ago) over a dozen Polymorphic 88 S-100
computers were used to teach computer lit in the math department.
Now I was the curious type and I took to reading the supplementary documentation to the operating system and I implemented a number of nasty suprises for the other students.... - The English Language
Let's face it-English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.... - GOING POSTAL
You've heard the recently coined slang phrase "Going Postal".
Here are some more examples, from the book "Jargon Watch", just published by Wired magazine....

