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Originally Posted by Nate the great
You first heard it from me, on this forum.
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'fraid not, Nate.
I've heard that quote tossed around many years before I met you.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nate the great
I was quoting James D. Nicoll:
"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."
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Mr. Nicoll apparently did say it too, but since he wasn't born until 1961, and Mr. Washington died in 1915, I think he probably has prior claim to it.
Unless of course someone knows definitively that Mr. Washington
didn't say it ... I certainly don't know of my own knowledge either way.