09-08-2007, 02:30 AM
09-08-2007, 02:25 PM
Too bad. It hurts when we lose an author who can get away with starting a novel with "It was a dark and stormy night."
''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
''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