Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Increasing your verbal ability

Perhaps you could impress your congregation with your verbal advantage with the following on Sunday:  then again, maybe not!!

 

Even if you aren't, you may SOUND educated by utilizing perfect English:

 

Scintillate, scintillate asteroid minific

Translation: Twinkle, twinkle little star

 

Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate ensemble

Translation: Birds of a feather flock together

 

Surveillance should precede saltation

Translation: Look before you leap

 

Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity

Translation: Beauty is only skin deep

 

It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitously departed lacteal fluid

Translation: Don't cry over spilled milk

 

Freedom from encrustation of grime is contiguous to rectitude

Translation: Cleanliness is next to godliness

 

The stylus is more potent than the claymore

Translation: The pen is mightier than the sword

 

It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers

Translation: You can't teach an old dog new tricks

 

The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees Fahrenheit

Translation: A watched pot does not boil

 

All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous

Translation: All that glitters is not gold

 

Where there are visible vapors having provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration

Translation: Where there's smoke there's fire

 

A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate the potable concoction produced by steeping certain comestibles

Translation: Too many cooks spoil the broth

 

Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience intra-murally

Translation: Charity begins at home

 

Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony

Translation: Dead men tell no tales

 

Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles

Translation: People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

 

Taken from grif.net

 

Have a great week…..