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Zach Wolff wrote:
> English borrows from other languages at a rate greater than
> any other known modern languange.
This is an example of what I will call a "memorism", in hopes that my
creative coinage will someday show up in Webster. A "memorism" is a
factoid once heard or read somewhere, which one has implanted in one's
memory so indelibly that one continues to recite it automatically
without taking note that it was or has become incorrect. A "memorism"
can also be a fact that was memorized incorrectly; or two facts that
have become entwined and garbled.
If your "memorism" ever was true, it's certainly out of date by decades
at least.