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Sheer Joy From Brazil: Jovino Santos Neto Trio: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))11/05/2019 9:25:29 am PST

re: #169 Teukka

If you go back far enough, all languages have borrowed, stolen, dumped on etc. on each other.

I forget where the quote originated, but it stated that English does not just borrow words from other languages, it follows them down dark alleys, hits them over the head and rifles their pockets…