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Re: About linguistic (in)tolerance

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Friday, March 26, 1999, 23:13
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Brian Betty wrote:

> > Yep. Whereas since English is so ubiquitous, it could use a little > subversion. Hence my wordplay and borrowing. A real coup is to get a > conlang word used in daily speech by people who don't know about conlangs - > or who are of the look-down-your-nose-at-that-foolish-habit type ...
You mean like "dwarves"? If [I don't recall which of us posted] was right in that Tolkien influenced common speech enough to effectuate a change from dwarfs to dwarves. Not precicely conlang related, but pretty damn close. Padraic.
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