Wednesday One-Liners Fail English? That Unpossible.

Crackhead girl talking to old pimp: I don't know why for she call you... Just to be talkin' shit... You know how I be is...

--Bed-Stuy

Vassar student: If I spoke France fluently, I'd be there right now!

--West 7th & Avenue T

Man leaning into friend's car window: Nah, she aight... Nah, she aight... Nah, she aight. [Sees a guy across the street] Hey, man, you aight? Aight... Nah, she aight...

--150th & Macombs

Black woman: He coulda played for the Bears, he coulda played for the Jets, but nothing never stucked.

--14th St & 6th Ave

Overheard by: off white

Earnest student giving presentation: I was going to talk about Freud, but I decided he was tangenital to the discussion.

--NYU Silver Center

Overheard by: She wasn't kidding, and no one laughed

Artistic hipster wannabe: Also, not to get too psychoanaliterature...

--Starbucks, Union Square West

Overheard by: Benjamin

Thug: Yo, nigga, don't make me yo' escapegoat!

--4 train, Bronx

Overheard by: charles elliot