On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:20:46 +0100 Tadziu Hoffmann <hoffm...@usm.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> "English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows > other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes > through their pockets for loose grammar." That's clever, and was a bit true 5 centuries ago. Nowadays, English is the Borg of languages: It's always absorbing new words, and resistance is futile. --jkl
