Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
comic strip overdue media

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

One more thing...

Given the loss of indigenous languages to English, and the heavy borrowing that is sometimes the only remnant of those languages, I can't really argue with this:

A dead man fell from the sky...: The grammar thug
'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.'

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