Language-to-Language Quotes

Mmmm....I don't get this kind of humour. Having fun at someone else's expense to other parties is always funny but it is not when the joke is reversed.

Do you usually mean what you say when you are joking?
It's vital to be able to take stance from seriousness, sometime.

English is just Dutch spoken by Welsh people who want to be Italians.

I am basing this one off of Simon's one about French, Latin and Cockneys).

English is just Old English as spoken by Parisians.

Juan, maybe you really do not get this humour. However, what is not to get? No one is purposefully putting down any language, race or culture here. We are having a bit of fun. Lighten up a bit, eh? Haven't you noticed all of the posts I have put in about the English language; MY native language!

Scots is what happens when English people want to learn Gaelic, but give up.

Ullans is what happens when Scottish people want to be English in Ireland.

Northern English accents is what you get when southerners try to be Scottish.

Or is it;

Northern English accents is what you get when northerners try to be Cockneys?

Swedish is what happens when a Dane has had a bit too much to drink.

German is English with grammar and no pronunciation fancies to make the native speakers proud of their pronunciation but proud of their difficult grammar that is harder than the unexisting English grammar, and German grammar is more challening, unlike English grammar, even being difficult, it is fun to learn. I love German ... I wish I could be one ....

American spelling is what you get when a person with all the wrong intentions takes an idea that arguably would have had a degree of merit and foists it in the wrong fashion onto only too small a sector of a public which turns out to be too unwilling or disinterested to accept enough of it for it to turn out to be worthwhile after all.

Scots is not a Gaelicky English or a midway language between the two.

Estuary English is what you get when Home Counties people pretend to be Cockneys.

English, any variety, is what happens when you try to write too long sentences at Antimoon in Finnish :-)

That goes out to Jim and Sagason ;-P

English is German as spoken by Americans.

English is a language spoken with front teeth and half a tongue

Tamil is Ls with vowels in between.

(I think this is Tamil - sorry if it's Hindi or any other language spoken in India)

(Both Tamil and Hindi are spoken in India along with umpteen other languages).