"Julia Altshuler" schrieb :
> Michael Kuettner wrote:
>> AFAIR, it went : "While every language borrows words, the English
>> language is the only one to lure the victim into a dark alley, knocks
>> it over the head and goes through the pockets for vocabulary."
>
>
> I love the quote! Any idea who said it and in what? A quick google check
> didn't yield it.
>
My money would be on Mark Twain; but I don't know.
Another quote (from Twain) : "I went to a German theater play the other
day. It was so boring that I left before the verb."

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner