English

Another day of not doing much. Tomorrow will also be a day of not doing much, as tomorrow is a bank holiday. Woo hoo. I would bounce, except that would be doing too much.

I have also just seen the most gorgeous pattern for a complicated knitted cape. Down girl, down. At least finish some of your other projects first.

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English is the noise made by people who don't believe you can use language but want your stuff handed over politely.
English is what happens when you can't decide whether the Greeks or the Romans had the better civilization, so you ask everybody they ever beat up on to sort it out.
English is a language in which up has forty-seven dictionary definitions but antidisestablishmentarianism is considered a "hard word."
English is a text parser's way of getting faster processors built.
English is the inevitable result of repressing the gender of nouns.
English is ideographic, but it's sneaky about it.
English was created to be the language of international air traffic control, but it got bored waiting.
English is the "universal Martian" used for interplanetary ditching instructions.
English is a tale told by an extremely clever and inventive idiot.

-- John M Ford