> > 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....

Common usage always throws a wrench into the cogs :) But "official" stuff
sticks around forever...

> 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. :)

Oh yeah... English is the great language thief :)

> >> 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.

yeah, you and Fang... terrors both

here kitty kitty....




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