English is a language that lurks in dark alleys

... языки и обчищает их карманы в поисках лишних слов". А потом нашла исходную фразу: "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 rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll Автор фразы -...

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nemica

Not quite what the Esperanto folks were hoping for

... hands over the purity of their language, English-speakers are not so worried. As James Nicoll has noted eloquently, "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 rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

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debgeisler

An Epic about Fail(ure. Happy? You know who you are...)

... I can't find the reference for my favored shock phrases "pseudo intellectual masturbation": 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 rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. [ and that would be James ...

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titivillus

My first Live Journal Entry

... a badly behaved rabbit." - Remus Lupin, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban "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 rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James Nicoll "When choosing ...

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angeldevilsmile

This look vaguely familiar, somehow

... variations, Richard Murnane offers a much-quoted insight from one James Nicholl, who wrote: "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 rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." And while my name isn't ...

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james_nicoll

The problems with English

... go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........it is time to shut UP! "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 rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." James Davis Nicoll

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draconin

Neologisms

... from the butchery of the ignorant but I can't. As James Nicoll once said, “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 rifle through their pockets for new vocabulary.” Ok, so the English dictionary is a ...

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