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Re: Tono....death?

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 12:29
daniel andreasson scripsit:

> I'm pretty sure there is a more technical termn to "language > death", I just can't remember it. Glottocide? Linguacide? > Anyone?
I hope not. The whole point of using the term "language death" is to make it vividly apparent what is going on. As I recall, the discoverer of the knee-jerk reflex insisted that this plain English name be used for it, eschewing all talk of "patellar reflex", though this term has since acquired some currency. Eschew obfuscation. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand." --Gerald Holton