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Roy Blount, Jr. Zitate

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Englisch ist ein unerhörtes Gewirr dieser Ableitungen und anderer vielfältiger sprachlicher Einflüsse, von Jiddisch bis Shoshone, das um einen knorrigen Kern aus zähen, klirrenden Gierigen gewachsen ist, die von Ahnen stammen, die sich blau bemalen, um ihre Feinde zu erschrecken.

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