SC - spelling please
Erika Thomenius
ldygytha at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 6 10:33:40 PST 2001
>Yeah, except that English takes into itself quite a few
>foreign words and adopts them for its own nefarious purposes.
>At what point does a borrowed foreign word acquire native
>rights?
>
>
>Alban, who'll shut up now on this subject
A good quotation:
"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
- -Gytha, who will also shut up on this subject now.
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