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Originally Posted by Sa'ar Chasm
English is what you get when you combine French and German, let sit for a millenium or so and then teach it to kleptomaniac monkeys.
English doesn't borrow from other languages so much as hit them over the head in a dark alley and then rifle through their pockets for loose vocabulary.
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Came across an interesting link at the Terran forum which relates to this somewhat.
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