We need to plaster these billboards all over California, Texas, and our whole southern border. The triggering would be so epic!
From The Telegraph:A Croatian language school has launched a new billboard in Zagreb depicting First Lady Melania Trump with the line: “Just imagine how far you can go with a little bit of English.” The campaign was launched by the Američki Institut, a centre for the promotion of American culture based in the Croatian capital. On Thursday the centre posted on Facebook a picture of the billboard showing a painting by a local artist of the first lady in front of an American flag with the message: “We entered the billboard game”. The marketing campaign aims to remind people “of the importance of knowing the world of languages and how much knowledge is essential for international success,” said Brett Campbell, Institut’s co-founder, in an interview with local newspaper Vecernji List. “We are witnessing the great wave of emigration of Croatians who are looking for their fortunes in Anglo-Saxon countries, such as Ireland, Canada, Australia etc. “If you are well-versed in English, in these markets you can go very far. And we can help you, ” the Boston-native said. The campaign is the work of Ivis Burić, Vecernji List reported. “People can have all sorts of opinions about Melania Trump, but they can not deny her the success she deserves and her knowledge of English,” she said. “Not everyone can not become one of the most powerful women in the world.” Mrs Trump, who was born in Slovenia, is fluent German, French and Serbian as well as English and Slovenian. |
There is no egg in the eggplant,
No ham in the hamburger
And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England,
French fries were not invented in France.
We sometimes take English for granted, but if we examine its paradoxes we find that:
Quicksand takes you down slowly,
Boxing rings are square,
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
If writers write, how come fingers don’t fing?
If the plural of tooth is teeth,
Shouldn’t the plural of phone booth be phone beeth?
If the teacher taught,
Why hasn’t the preacher praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
What the heck does a humanitarian eat?
Why do people recite at a play,
Yet play at a recital?
Park on driveways and
Drive on parkways?
How can the weather be as hot as hell on one day
And as cold as hell on another?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down,
And in which you fill in a form
By filling it out
And a bell is only heard once it goes!
English was invented by people, not computers,
And it reflects the creativity of the human race
(Which of course isn’t a race at all.)
That is why:
When the stars are out they are visible,
But when the lights are out they are invisible.
And why it is that when I wind up my watch
It starts,
But when I wind up this poem
It ends.
