I found these two quotes absolutely brilliant (and they get a bonus because they are about linguistics!).
"If English were a Harry Potter character, it would probably be Mundungus Fletcher." -Alan P on one of my Yahoo!Groups.
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffled their pockets for new vocabulary." -James D. Nicoll
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