Sentence examples for witty linguistic from inspiring English sources
(And let's not forget Lewis Carroll.) But her witty linguistic collages have their own rhythms and rules, reflecting the attitude of a generation that takes for granted the comic banality of everyday discourse and the disjunction between emotion and expression that is a hallmark of the post-ironic age — the youth whose response to the confusions of the world is a cosmic "whatever".
In epic, mock-epic, philosophical poems, or witty society pieces he was preeminent, but to the modern critic the linguistic intensity that might indicate genius is missing.
Most agreed with the Mail on Sunday's Hephzibah Anderson: "Thanks to the author's linguistic chops, it's a creative gamble that pays off brilliantly … Witty and gently tragic, this short yet utterly bewitching novel is an ode to humanity's beauty, selfishness and inextinguishable longing".
(Linguistic scholars more recently have renamed forms like these "linguistic blends," proving to no one's surprise that Carroll was wittier than most of my colleagues).
His witty punchlines and clips of Morsi's hilarious or dictatorial statements, and the president's linguistic stumbles by mixing rickety English with Arabic are legend.
Chris Riddell's drawings of linguistic elements – graphemes, phonemes, cohesive devices etc – as bizarre and fantastic creatures (Children's laureate rises to a beastly challenge, 14 May) are witty for sure, but let's not jeer too loudly.
Linguistic ties matter too.
