I also think that English (as a person!!!) is a most generous language
allowing all kind of guest words and expressions to feel at home and become
members of the household. More so than any other language I know. I have
usually experienced laments for "purification" by speakers and policymakers
of other languages I know. But in English, one can meet a most fantastic
variety of exotic "foreign" words, feeling quite OK about themselves. From
classic Latin and Greek words, through various African ones, to Russian,
Hebrew, Spanish, French, German and who knows what else.
And if you think of it, standards of grammar are not something so old, they
came with more widespread literacy. Every language changes all the time - it
is literacy that slows it down and makes it look stable, fixed and sometimes
dead. (Bakhtin). So, thank you, Jay, you are waking it up and making it
alive again.
Ana
If yoo kan reed de abav, mins yoo R aleiv end vel.