Mandatory Sentencing Guidelines
Judge John Hodgman
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The Untowardness of the English Language
When did we shed that kind of, that sort of Teutonic self-policing? I mean, it was really before Middle English that that had mostly fallen away. It didn't matter if something was in the accusative case or in the date of case and adjectives and nouns would take endings like they do in German. And that magpie nature of the English language is one of the things that makes it so difficult to learn and yet so fun to play around with.
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