"Fading Language"?
Language Log 2022-12-23
Summary:
People get confused about languages, dialects, registers, and scripts — and when journalists try to help, they often make things worse. For a good recent example, see Mujib Mashal, "Where Romantic Poetry in a Fading Language Draws Stadium Crowds", NYT 12/18/2022: That more than 300,000 people came to celebrate Urdu poetry during the three-day festival […]