And Rosta scripsit:
> I've only heard the term used in exactly that pejorative way.
I think that's the whole idea of using -ite rather than some other
suffix.
> Interestingly, I haven't heard it for many years, probably because
> the non-chomskyan strands in linguistics have gained in maturity
> and establishedness both inside and outside grammatical theory.
Not unlikely.
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