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Re: What to Call Non-Conlangers

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Saturday, March 5, 2005, 3:44
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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

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Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>'language destroyers' (was: What to Call Non-Conlangers)