Alabama Republican Runs Bizarre Ad, Calling for English-Only Driver's License Tests

Republican Tim James is running for governor of Alabama, and he decided to air a campaign ad declaring that if he's elected, driver's license tests will only be administered in English. Because, you know, that's such a pressing issue for the state, and foreign languages are so icky and weird-sounding!

Amazing Anagrams

SOFTHEARTEDNESS = OFTEN SHEDS TEARS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE = I’LL MAKE A WISE PHRASE
SAINT VALENTINE’S DAY = NAY, A LASS INVENTED IT
THE UPHOLSTERERS = RESTORE THE PLUSH
TO CAST PEARLS BEFORE SWINE = ONE’S LABOR IS PERFECT WASTE
ANIMOSITY = IS NO AMITY

PRINCESS DIANA can be rearranged to spell ASCEND IN PARIS.

source: futilitycloset.com

“My mother … pointed out that one could not say ‘a green great dragon,’ but had to say ‘a great green dragon.’ I wondered why, and still do.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

True. You could also replace "English" with "American"

Un homme qui parle trois langues est trilingue.

Un homme qui parle deux langues est bilingue.

Un homme qui ne parle qu'une langue est anglais.

A man who speaks three languages is trilingual.

A man who speaks two languages is bilingual.

A man who speaks only one language is English.

- Claude Gagniere

Briton 'gets Chinese accent after bad migraine'

Briton 'gets Chinese accent after bad migraine'

A British woman is now speaking with a Chinese accent after suffering from an extreme migraine that apparently left her with some brain damage. If it sounds hokey, there's actually a name for this condition; it's called Foreign Accent Syndrome. Being that the woman had never even traveled to China and had never studied Chinese, her new accent, and those acquired by other individuals with the syndrome, is merely perceived and categorized as "Chinese" by listeners. Thus, the affected individual's new inflection is not an unconscious imitation of another language in any form, but rather their new pronunciation and tone, induced by a stroke or serious migraine, is a particular recipe that is ripe for perception by others as fitting a particular foreign accent.