Quote: commerce corrupts the language through frequent contact with strangers; eventually becomes a mingled dialect, a jargon

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Commerce, however necessary, however lucrative, as it depraves the manners, corrupts the language; they that have frequent intercourse with strangers, to whom they endeavour to accommodate themselves, must in time learn a mingled dialect, like the jargon which serves the traffickers on the Mediterranean and Indian coasts.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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