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-->"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." -"The King's English". Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf-lovers, 05/15/1990

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-->"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." -"The King's English". Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf-lovers, 05/15/199005/15/1990

-->"If it’s wrong for an atomic scientist and three expendable teens to head to the Moon in a homemade rocket to shoot Space Nazis, then I don’t want to be right" - ''Rocketship Galileo'' [[https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/rocket-ship-galileo review]] 08/15/2014

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"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."
-"The King's English". Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf-lovers, 05/15/1990

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" -"The King's English". Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf-lovers, 05/15/1990
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"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."
-"The King's English". Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf-lovers, 05/15/1990

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