Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. Englishs drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, its shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its dont-worry-be-happy concern for grammar—the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved. — Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil.
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