Re: [GZG] [OT] Re: Ginger

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> I hear you Englanders have broken down and formed an Institute to
conserve
> and protect the English Language. I was listening to the lady behind
the
> movement, inspired it seems by the institutes in Spain and France.
>
> Don't get me wrong, there's a lovely lot to conserve of English
history, but
> before anyone speaking the King or Queen's English is allowed to
become
> curator of the amorphous nature of English, I think the English have
to
> 'splain some things to us poor colonials...
>

This makes me think of something a friend of mine wrote:

People who go on about the purity of the English language amuse me.
English has all the purity of a cribhouse whore.  It not only borrows
words from other languages, it lures small languages into dark alleys
and rolls them for spare vocabulary.
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