On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:01:02PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I have a T-shirt that says "English doesn't borrow from other
> languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks
> them down and goes through their pockets for loose grammar." (it's a
> paraphrase of an older quote, but I forget the original). When native

The original is from 1990 on Usenet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll#.22The_Purity_of_the_English_Language.22

--amk
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