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From: "Damian Yerrick" <tepples@...>
> "Ray Brown" <ray.brown@...> wrote:
>> But, if you asked most people what the opposite of
>> 'construct' is, they'd probably answer 'destroy'. So the opposite of a
>> language constructor, is arguably a 'language destroyer' - someone who
>> wants the whole word to speak English :)
>
> Think of the former policies toward Native American languages
> in the United States, where speaking Injun in school was a
> punishable offense.
Ahem! Think of nineteenth-century Wales. Little miners' sons in school
with signs on them: "Do not speak Welsh to me."
Sally