English!

[Loren Pechtel]

Seriously.
I am currently wearing a t-shirt that says:
"ENGLISH doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."

But where do we steal grammar? We steal words!

 

[bilby]

Seriously.
I am currently wearing a t-shirt that says:
"ENGLISH doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."

But where do we steal grammar? We steal words!

Are you kidding? English has a huge number of grammatical variants, just as it has a huge vocabulary. We steal both.

 

[jonatha]

Seriously.
I am currently wearing a t-shirt that says:
"ENGLISH doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."

But where do we steal grammar? We steal words!

Are you kidding? English has a huge number of grammatical variants, just as it has a huge vocabulary. We steal both.

"A huge number of grammatical variants" is an awfully highfalutin' way to say "Grammar? We don't need no stinkin' grammar"

(Let's not get started on English's spelling "rules"...)

 

[bilby]

"A huge number of grammatical variants" is an awfully highfalutin' way to say "Grammar? We don't need no stinkin' grammar"

Yeah, and the fact that there's both highfalutin' and lowfalutin' ways to say the exact same thing is rather the point.