No Tears For Dead Tongues (fwd link)

Fri Feb 22 18:11:28 UTC 2008

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No Tears For Dead Tongues

John McWhorter 02.21.08, 6:00 PM ET

No one will again use the word demexch, which refers to a soft spot in the ice
good for fishing. Never again will anyone hear the word for an evergreen
branch, which, when pronounced correctly, includes a sound like the wind
whistling through a branch. And no child will ever learn that the squirrel
scampering around gathering acorns is called something as fun to say as , where
the final k' is pronounced with a crisp pop.

Full article link below:
http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/21/language-death-english-tech-cx_jm_language_sp08_0221death.html?feed=rss_news