> >>>I imagine there will be an even bigger push to anihilate the
> >>>poor prairie dog now...
>
> >>But then what will we call the mass over-cubicle-wall peekings?
>
> > egads! I don't know... but then we haven't stopped saying ppl are
dodo's,
> > and we killed the dodo off a long time ago...
>
> I suppose, though it does seem to be falling out of usage.  One wonders
how
> long it will be before the dodo is as extinct from the lexicon as it is
from
> the world?

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 

> 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 



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