Weekend Items.

English, Germany, Mexico, Kevin Durant.

1. Here’s an excerpt from a great Janan Ganesh column about the English language:

It is a life-enhancing thing that languages mutate. But I wonder if English has ever been as restlessly protean as it is now. If the changes stayed at the level of slang or subculture, they would be of merely academic interest. What we have instead is constant seepage into…