This should be illegal

Babel is a strange reading experience because elements of the worldbuilding are fascinating and the prose is both evocative and compulsively readable, but also, 80% of the characters sound like this

I take very seriously the solemn burden of having to explain "on my way to TARGET" to everyone I know because I saw this post six years ago and it became a fundamental part of my sense of humor immediately

This is from the 40s as well. You should ask him if he was born at sermon time

I don't know how old it is, but this was in a newspaper in 1937.

Like get the hell out of here. Just leave me alone