Can Parent and Daughter co-exist?

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>vidynath at math.ohio-state.edu writes:

>Is formal Tamil a living language? And, if you try to regard formal and
>colloquial Tamil as different registers, how do you tell different registers
>of a langauge from two distinct languages?

-- if you read a piece of formal Tamil out loud, can a
colloquial-Tamil-speaker who hasn't received any training in formal Tamil
understand it?