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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 10:08pm on 2004-12-19
Found it -- James Nicoll in 1990 on Usenet:
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 riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.
And the version I heard first, which appears to have derived from Nicoll's via folk process:
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
Google pointed me here (http://scribo.blogs.com/scribo/2004/06/language_thugs.html).
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