Nicked this from a long-lost once-upon-a-time friend's blog. Not sure where she found it but I thought it was amusing.

"The problem with defending the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alleyways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for vocabulary."

~ James Nicoll