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• 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.

  Speaker: Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
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  2 (2 votes)
  Posted: 04 Sep 2009 at 5:36 PM
  Posted By: augmentedfourth
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  Tags: english, language, vocabulary
  Shared By: 2 members; dirid51, augmentedfourth

• The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

  Speaker: Robert Burchfield, lexicographer (1923-2004)
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  2 (2 votes)
  Posted: 16 Nov 2008 at 3:56 PM
  Posted By: augmentedfourth
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  Tags: accordion, english, language
  Shared By: 2 members; wheaties, augmentedfourth

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• Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

  Source: The Black Swan
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  Posted: 16 Feb 2015 at 11:58 AM
  Posted By: Puck
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  Tags: ideology, ism, movements, politics
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