From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T12:34:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Its a Free Language

Juan Zanos wrote:

>> English does not borrow from other languages. English follows other  
>> languages into dark alleys, knocks them over, and rifles through  
>> their pockets for loose vocabulary.
> 
> English, unlike other languages, is very consistent and  
> straightforward.  For example,  the plural of boot is boots and the  
> plural of foot is foots.  Ok.  Maybe I need a better example.

"Okay" is a real word. "OK" is an historical bacronym. (The published
dictionaries have this one wrong.) Okay means "emphatic yes" in Wolof, one of
the languages English... knocked over. "Banana" and "hippie" come from the same
source...