Sunday 25Oct2009 0:26
“ English is essentially what happens when you can’t decide whether the Greeks or the Romans had the better civilization, so you ask everybody they ever beat up on to sort it out.
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John M. Ford, via Essentialist Explanations, “a list of 989 ‘essentialist explanations’ of the form ‘Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z’”. (via dailymeh)
John M. Ford, he’s missed. Damn missed.
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