Quote:
Originally Posted by pdurrant
“[English doesn’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 Nicoll, 15 May 1990
A non sequitur, but enjoyable. |
I agree. I still believe that the only reason BookDepository can offer free shipping everywhere is because of the enslavement created by colonialism many decades ago.
Still my favorite on-line dead tree bookshop.