Here’s a classic from Stephen Fry with lots of punny fun and English silliness to celebrate Halloween:
Category: humor
Jun 13
Pen jibes and stinging ink
Aug 25
Who or whom? A fun lesson
Aug 20
Lost in translation
Usually I don’t judge too harshly when I see translation errors while traveling. I appreciate the effort to provide information in English and can overlook misspelling and other sometimes-cute errors. However this caught my eye and deserves some criticism because it’s an awkward translation that a major international hotel chain is using. They clearly have …
May 15
The Chaos – Gerard Nolst Trenité (1922)
Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. Pray, console your loving poet, Make my coat …
Mar 04
Quotation
May 25
“It was a dark and stormy night…”
Bad opening sentences are enthusiastically welcomed at the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Thousands of original entries vie for the title of ‘worst’ in a number of categories. The 2012 deadline is June 30. Details and last year’s winners can be found at Bulwer-Lytton.com Selecting a favorite from the 2011 winners is difficult. I offer you …