Can Parent and Daughter co-exist?

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>petegray at btinternet.com writes:

>Katherevousa and the Demotike forms of modern Greek.   No one learnt
>Katherevousa as a mother tongue, but in the 60's we could hardly claim that
>it was not "Greek", just because it had no mother speakers. >>

-- Katherervousa was an artificial creation; an archaized form of modern
Greek.  As soon as the government stopped insisting on its use in the state
apparatus, it vanished without trace.

This is an illustration of how helpless governments, National Academies and
other 'formalists' are in the face of actual linguistic evolution, as
embodied in the real popular speech-forms.