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Title	The purity of the English language
Text to be translated Submitted by mateo	Source language: English The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary. James Nicoll, 1846-1918

7 January 2006 18:22