Re: Tono....death?

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.

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