Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. - Roy Blount Jr.

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.