26 Apr
2011
26 Apr
'11
12:12 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:01:02PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
I have a T-shirt that says "English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them down and goes through their pockets for loose grammar." (it's a paraphrase of an older quote, but I forget the original). When native
The original is from 1990 on Usenet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll#.22The_Purity_of_the_English_Langu...
--amk