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Sun, Dec 17, 2006

James Nicoll stories

Posted at 8:55 pm MST to Media

James Nicoll has been posting on rec.arts.sf.written for years and has a blog I read regularly.

He is the originator of a quote that has appeared in Linguistics textbooks:

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

David Dyer-Bennett and Cally Soukup have put together a collection of James' anecdotes about his cats and his extremely accident-prone life and family.

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