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Mark Dominus (陶敏修)
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Sat, 27 Jun 2026
It's our language now!
A while back I related how I had been mocked by an English person for using the word “burglarize”.<br>I ended by saying:
Okay, whatever. Brits have been mocking the American language for centuries now. Let them go ahead. We all know who won that argument.
Since then I've been comforted by that thought. I smile to myself and<br>say “It's ours now, we have you outnumbered.”
But for the last few years this has always been followed by another<br>thought: On that logic, it actually belongs to the Indians. And yes,<br>it probably does and we just haven't noticed yet.
But we will.
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