Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 15, 2002
October 14, 2002
October 16, 2002
Transcript:
"So I was laying here and..." "Lying here." "Huh?" "You 'lay' something down. You yourself 'lie' on something." "What if I said it didn't matter." "Then you'd be 'lying.' Though you could be 'ignorant.'" "English is way too complicated." "Well, Sanskrit was already taken."
Anton Sherwood almost 2 years ago
You don’t even want to know about Sanskrit noun forms, let alone verb forms – unless you think Latin is too simple.
phoenixnyc about 1 year ago
“English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.”
— H. Beam Piper
DKHenderson about 2 months ago
English: the borrower’s language. Borrow a few words here, borrow a few words there…should be the official language of libraries!