Showing posts with label figures of speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label figures of speech. Show all posts

Sunday, June 7, 2009

CEC SmartBrief article from: mskathy

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Parent: Speech therapist helped son learn to communicate
John Gray's son Jackson was born with dyspraxia, but with the help of speech therapist Catherine Kunz, Jackson learned sign language first, then progressed to words and full sentences. He'll start the fall in a mainstream kindergarten. Record (Troy, N.Y.), The (6/3)

Friday, May 15, 2009

FOR LEXOPHILES

If you are using a translator generator, the play on words and figures of speech will be lost in translation of these gems.

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FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS):


1. A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.

2. A will is a dead giveaway.

3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. [This, BTW, is one of my favoritye quites from Groucho Marx. I sued to keep it on a mini-poster in my office.]

4. A backward poet writes inverse.

5. In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.

6. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

7. If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.

8. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

9. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat miner.

10. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

11. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.

12. A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France
resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.
13. You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
14. Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.

15. He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

16. A calendar's days are numbered.
17. A most money is tainted: "T'aint yours; 'taint mine.
18. A boiled egg is hard to beat.

19. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

20. A plateau is a high form of flattery.

21. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
22. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.


23. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.

24. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.

25. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.

26. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.


27. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

28. Acupuncture: a jab well done.

29. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.

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