Today's Deep Thought

[bloodyrosemccoy]

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here, but I have this long-standing theory that English is the Borg of languages.

“We are English. We will add you semantic and syntactic distinctiveness to our own. Your phonology will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.”

Makes an eerie amount of sense, doesn’t it?

Comments

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

I'm also rather fond of the Sheldon approach to the English language: "Look. The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary."

[caprine.livejournal.com]

I thought it was Norman soldiers trying to get some from Saxon barmaids.