Essentially (was Re: cases (nom/acc vs sub/obj))

Jonathan Chang wrote:
>     Same here. (Just to make sure the right peep gets credit for this
> wonderfully terse critique... Was it Lars Henrik Mathiesen that originally
> wrote this quip???)
Yep.

Let's paraphrase it for John Cowan's essentialist page - "English is
essentially a whore"  ;-)

Appropriate lexically, too, taking words from all over the globe.

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