Original post on defending the purity of the English language

 

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From: jdnic...@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (Brian or James)
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Subject: The King's English
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Date: 15 May 90 15:53:09 GMT
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 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. I have a friend who has a wonderful tirade about
the incorrectness of trying to 
	1: Map Latin grammar onto English 
  He's an English teacher, BTW. I don't think he's likely to win
mass coverts, alas.
					JDN     

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Faux Pas

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.

JDN

"On defending the purity of the English Language"

 

		"Faux Pas"

        English comes
        on little fox paws.

        It sits looking
        over German and French
        on silent haunches
        and then mugs them.

			-- Apologies to Carl Sandburg