you mean this one ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nate the great
It's not Booker T Washington. You first heard it from me, on this forum. 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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edit : my stars, all those replies in the 2 minutes since i opened this tab... i was replying to nekokami, all the way up
there.