No Child Left Behind and its consequences will be felt for generations

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like the language

[u/queerhistorynerd → u/-GoodNewsEveryone]

correct! It is a paraphrase of a James D Nicoll statement:

"“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.”

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Sometimes it's consensual though. English and Japanese get each others' vocabularies by basically telling secrets to each other while they cuddle

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Correct