http://www.linglish.net Where English meets Linguistics Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:19:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.linglish.net/images/logo.png http://www.linglish.net 144 166 Where English meets Linguistics http://www.linglish.net/2010/03/08/nothing-left-is-right/ http://www.linglish.net/2010/03/08/nothing-left-is-right/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:23:50 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=768 I read a joke on Facebook, a witty play on words: My left brain has nothing right, My right brain has nothing left. The wit obviously lies in intentionally confusing two pairs of homophones, namely left as a direction and left as the past participle of leave, and right as a direction and right meaning proper and correct. [...]]]> http://www.linglish.net/2010/03/08/nothing-left-is-right/feed/ 2