> With English? Never.
> We go back and loot the lexicon all the time...maybe not en masse, but old
> words never die, they just lurk 

Let me rephrase: Common use.  And, really, that's not totally true anyway - 
new formations replace old, [For instance, the proper formation
"furiosity" is 
fading with people using "furiousness"] etc.  I mean, English
used to have a 
*case* system....

Language evolves.  That's why some people have problems with Shakespeare, I 
imagine.  Besides, we loot the lexicons of other languages more than our own. :)

>> Drat.  Now I'll be thinking about that for a while.  Remind me to inflict
>> that on some friends in the (Socio-)Linguistics program in September.
> 
> you're mean 

I don't think I've ever discouraged that assessment of my character.

-N

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