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Time to whip out: "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow wo
by jacobush 7y ago
Time to whip out:
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
--James D. Nicoll
- dbtx 7y agoAh, but which English? I rather suspect it was the American variety that did the most of that. Because, you know, American tradition of rendering unconscious and emptying pockets, and all. It's a thing, here. On the topic of "words" "found in" pockets, they didn't harvest every single password I'd created for a handful of years because they didn't care about the USB drive-- just the bit of cash. I also had someone's CC# on a sticky note in my wallet, and they left it all on the ground. Amateurs.