(urth) BotNS in German
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
danldo at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 11:31:07 PST 2004
James:
French does indeed borrow words, at least from English, like fer example
"le week-end." French academic purists rail against such things. Probably
the funniest example arose when they damned "le pique-nique," which
came back to hit them in the face - the English word "picnic" was a
borrowing from an old French word.
Matthew:
Whatever else "cacogen" may mean, it's a dead cert. that GW was very
much conscious of its originary sense, "shit-born."
--Dan'l
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