Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> So absorbing words from elsewhere is one of the reasons that English 
> thrives (including its very forgiving grammar (or almost lack of one 
> altogether)).
Well, _American_ English might lack a grammar :-) It is after all the
land where no noun cannot be verbed. And where. Sentences can be. Very
short.

tim
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42.7, no, 87.3, percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.