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To: caver

One could argue that much of the English Language is a result of the butchering of other languages.


25 posted on 02/09/2011 8:58:26 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: AFreeBird
One could argue that much of the English Language is a result of the butchering of other languages.

A better argument is that every army that ever conquered Britain integrated their own vocabulary into what was already there. It wasn't an act of butchering by the natives.

English is a mongrel language, but it became so through acts of violence.

30 posted on 02/09/2011 9:03:56 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (Two blogs for the price of none!)
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