From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T12:48:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Its a Free Language

Why does this matter?

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On 03/02/2009, at 2:34 PM, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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...
>