Quote: Yep Dwight not only do we infuse words from other languages. We adulterate them as well. I really am curious as to how the 'merican language is going to transform between now and when I'm an old dinosaur shaking my cane at people on the street. I wonder if I'll be that guy who says back in my day we called that ............. And we had ...................... it was tougher, hotter, colder, and better.
What the heck do ya MEAN "ya wonder if"???
(...heck, you're already a cranky YOUNG man, dude!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)