Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'.
"To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure this is English," Peter said. "It's taken me most of today to get through a page.
Tags: reading book moby-dick english
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Oscar WildeSo she did the English thing. She changed the subject.
Steve HockensmithTags: english subject changing-subject
Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour'
'Well, it's bloody close...'
'Well, they often are....
Tags: sin french english forbidden-fruit
They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures
Tawni O'DellTags: english
I'M SCOTTISH!
Elizabeth WeinTags: humor funny argument english scottish
The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed.
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Tags: loneliness quote desert english
Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don’t speak English?
Wayne Gerard TrotmanTags: people satan english bad-people satanism satanists foreign-language insurance-salesmen michael-trent
I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made privy to one of the most arcane of their utterings. The time was ripe for that major epiphany, my initiation into the sacred knowledge—or should I say gnosis?—of that all-important, quintessentially Brutish slang term, the word that endless hours of scholastic education by renowned mentors, plus years of scrupulous scrutiny into scrofulous texts, had disappointingly failed to impart to me, leaving me with that deep sense of emptiness begotten by hemimathy; the time was finally ripe for me to be transported by the velvety feel of the unvoiced palato-alveolar fricative, the élan of the unpronounceable and masochistically hedonistic front open-rounded vowel, and, last but not least, the (admittedly short) ejaculatory quality of the voiced velar stop: all three of them combined together to form that miraculous lexical item, the word shag.
Spiros DoikasTags: humor sexuality sex anthropology english britain british
I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.
Jerome K. JeromeTags: humor sarcasm english german
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