#gramma

It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#humor #language #humor

And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet. ↗

— Russell Brand

#grammar-humor #humor

I love you. You are the object of my affection and the object of my sentence. ↗

— Mignon Fogarty

#humor #humor

I can't read your lips unless they touch mine. ↗

— Jaf Liethers

#grammar #impassioned #inspiring #jaf-liethers #kiss

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#books #commas #demand #footsteps #grammar

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him! ↗

— Richard Harris Barham

#dim #each #eyes #grammar #heedless

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done. ↗

— John Mayer

#done #good #grammar #heart #know

Diagramming made language seem friendly, like a dog who doesn't bark, but, instead, trots over to greet you, wagging its tail. ↗

— Kitty Burns Florey

#grammar #art

People who practice freedom of expression are terrorizing our grammatical way of life. ↗

— Bauvard

#freedom #funny #grammar #humor #terrorism

[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however. These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however. ↗

— Stefano Benni

#grammar #language #life