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Central American Migrants riding trains North to the US/MX border

Fred

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

Somewhere in the world there are people who have never met people who speak proper English or, to a lesser extent, the British.


bas·tard·ize
ˈbastərˌdīz/Submit
verb
verb: bastardise
1.
corrupt or debase (something such as a language or art form), typically by adding new elements.
"a strange, bastardized form of French"
synonyms:    adulterate, corrupt, contaminate, weaken, dilute, taint, pollute, debase, distort
"it is unthinkable that I would bastardize my values"

Oi, mush, we stole the language from the Germans, so it's ours.
You just borrowed it, forgot how to spell, then kept your version.

HaileyinHongKong

Exactly.  The British bastardized it, so now it's ours.

Is the owner the first who stole it, or who stole it the best?