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Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel
This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Mad About English
Hat tip to Dekita.org
Mad About English, a film by Singaporean filmmaker Lian Pek, humorously documents China ‘s passionate love affair with the English language and their obsessive quest to learn it (some through very unorthodox methods).
This TechCrunch article shows another opportunity to_grow_ your_ career by pointing to a very grammatically (and politically) incorrect website, EngrishFunny, to which users send in photos of poorly translated or odd variations of written English in products, signs or instructions.
Deivis Pothin, a student of linguistics in London, shares his impressions and worries about the underlying message.





Alex Case wrote 37 words on Tuesday Aug 26, 2008 at 09:07 AM
I would so pay money to watch that! My favourite bit in the trailer was when I was convinced the guy saying “I am a volunteer” was saying “Good morning to yer” in a perfect Irish accent.