Hello Jeff Zeitlin,

Nuts, you stole my line and I should have checked before I sent my reply.

Tom Rux retired USN submarine sailor.

> On 01/05/2025 2:21 PM PST Jeff Zeitlin - editor at freelancetraveller.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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>
> On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 21:38:31 +0000, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at
> port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote to Freelance
> Traveller:
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> >On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 21:00, Jeff Zeitlin - editor at freelancetraveller.com
> >(via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 08:51:01 +0000, Timothy Collinson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> >Why not English? I asked with a smile...
> >>
> >> I (and many others that I've known) have said for many years that for any
> >> two countries X and Y that are in the Anglosphere, they're two countries
> >> divided by a common language...
> >>
> >> I took advantage of that, to some extent, in presenting ideas on how to use
> >> English to make your character seem foreign, in "Speaking in Tongues"
> >> https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/dialect.html (July/Aug
> >> 2017)...
> >>
> >>
> >Oh yes, good link - thanks for resurfacing that.  (Although, as I've just
> >written on Facebook, I'm sure that verb is for dealing with roads that need
> >repair.)
>
> Yes, but not entirely; consider its potential use in the context of a
> submarine that finds it necessary to return to the interface between ocean
> and atmosphere...
>
> Again, that's sorta characteristic of English - it doesn't necessarily keep
> the original meaning of a word if there's another perfectly good definition
> lying around that fits...
>
>    “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
>     English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. 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 D. Nicoll
>
> I'd go so far as to say that English doesn't limit its attentions to other
> languages; it even will prey on its closest relatives and immediate family.
>
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