Language….

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”   Ashleigh Brilliant  (1933 -)

Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, “I’d like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream.” The waitress replies, “I’m sorry, monsieur, but we’re out of cream. How about with no milk?”

The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Only the dead have seen the end of war. Plato