Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, its shoulder-shrug approach to spelling,its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar [...] language whose color and wealth H loved
— Dec 11, 2012 06:24AM
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