Robert’s WebLog

I googled around the Internet and by accident I found a really funny page on languages. The page is full of quotes on languages. I really enjoyed reading them. Here’s some of my favorites!

Italian is essentially English with vowels added to the ends of words.
Lombard is essentially Italian with vowels removed from the ends of words.
Ergo, Lombard is essentially English.

–And Rosta/Marco Cimarosti

Italian is what happened when Romans tried to learn Latin and said “screw it.”

–Charles Lavergne

French is essentially Latin spoken by a drunken Roman soldier.

–Elliotte Rusty Harold

All Romance languages are essentially the same. Except French.

–Andreas Johansson

Swiss German is German spoken with a Swedish accent.

–Frann Michel

Swedish is essentially the strangest dialect of Dutch I ever heard.

–Christophe Grandsire

Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are actually the same language. It’s just that the Norwegians can’t spell it, and the Danes can’t pronounce it.

–Chlewey

Danish is essentially Swedish spoken while eating porridge.

–Peter Landgren

Old English is essentially mispronounced Modern English spoken while wearing armor and carrying a roundshield and sword.

–Dan Seriff

English is essentially bad Dutch with outrageously pronounced French and Latin vocabulary.

–Eugene Holman

English is essentially Norse as spoken by a gang of French thugs.

–Benct Philip Jonsson

You’ll find more on: http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html