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Of or relating to England, the English people or the English language.
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We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don't want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets. We dress it in fancy clothes and tell it to behave, and it comes home with its underwear on its head and wearing someone else's socks. As English grows, it lives its own life, and this is right and healthy. Sometim
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― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.
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― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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The group name will likely change in the future, but for now, I'm trying to keep it as simple as…more
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