Hearing my 3-year-old randomly ask, "What happens if I was born in a hospital that
wasn't exploding?" made me laugh a lot.
(No, he wasn't born in a hospital that was exploding, and I have no idea why he would ask something like that, I guess you have to be 3 for it to make sense.
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"[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992