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 (b. 1961), "The King's English", rec.arts.sf-lovers, 15 May 1990