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Re: [groff] 04/04: tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes'.


From: James K. Lowden
Subject: Re: [groff] 04/04: tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes'.
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:49:13 -0500

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:20:46 +0100
Tadziu Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:

> "English doesn't borrow from other languages.  English follows
> other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes
> through their pockets for loose grammar."

That's clever, and was a bit true 5 centuries ago.  

Nowadays, English is the Borg of languages: It's always absorbing new
words, and resistance is futile.  

--jkl



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