re: #155 John Hughes

English speakers make great play over English’s tendency to “borrow” words from other languages.

A case could be made that English has to to that because Anglophones are not very inventive.

(-10 points to the first person who replies with something about dark alleys).

Hybridization almost always creates something stronger than the originals. English is an excellent example of the effect; a hybrid of welsh, dutch, german, norse, french and latin.