And then of course, there's the Klingon-fraction insulting an intrepid engineer by saying his ship is a garbage scow, and the retracting it because he says the ship should be hauled away as garbage.
''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