Unutterably Silly Terrible Jokes

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by DNSB

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary.

This also goes for many other languages. Estonian language, for example, has borrowed nearly one third of its vocabulary from German and also many words from Russian, Finnish, Swedish and recently from English.