Things that come to mind when working in second languages...

[montecristo]

It's a beautiful morning today

Comments

[prolixfootle]

Swiving balderdash. Tempus fugit, you know, we don't have time to make all this assimilation of foreign words and phrases de rigueur...

[inibo]

You strike me as someone already familiar with this quote, but on the offhand chance you aren't, and because I never pass up the opportunity to share it..."...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime."
- Mark Twain

[sorceror]

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
--James D. Nicoll

[antayla]

Awesome :).

[emmabovary]

An excellent and witty post. You should submit this to a linguistics journal. Seriously!

[montecristo]

Oh, now what kind of reward would being published be, compared with causing you to smile?

[edhorch]

I don't know why, but I'm craving chocolate right now...