The Null Device
1999/11/5
Entertaining page of witty one-line explanations of languages: (via RobotWisdom)
The Queen's English is essentially Modern Anglo-Saxon as passed on by generation after generation of stiff necked Norman nobles with their noses in the air.
--ilvi
English is what you get from Normans trying to pick up Saxon girls.
--Bryan Maloney
English is essentially an imprecise dialect of Java, without the object orientation.
--Julian Morrison