09-07-2009, 09:28 AM
Last night, I mentioned that Edward G Robinson was part-Chinese...
I was wrong.
According to Wikipedia he was Eastern-European.
My bad. Mea maxima culpa.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
I was wrong.
According to Wikipedia he was Eastern-European.
My bad. Mea maxima culpa.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll