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To: burzum

Orthography is not my specialization ... but English is an exceptional language.


33 posted on 05/31/2007 8:41:44 PM PDT by gobucks (Blissful Marriage: A result of a worldly husband's transformation into the Word's wife.)
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To: gobucks

“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 riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.” — James D. Nichol

This is part of why English is successful—it integrates words with ease. But this doesn’t mean that the rest of the language has to be so haphazardly designed, nor does it mean that we can’t properly anglicize the new words.


39 posted on 05/31/2007 8:53:32 PM PDT by burzum (None shall see me, though my battlecry may give me away -Minsc)
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