>Shit. Language is tougher than any state power, than any
>profession, or than any philosophical school. It simply
>is non-debasable. A core defense of poetry for about a
>century (say Flaubert through Ezra Pound and Allen
>Tate) was that it maintained the health of language.
>But any language is too tough to need such support.
>Carrol
Hmmm ... you may be a bit optimistic here mate -- (I'm guessing that your first language is English). As a speaker of a language (Welsh) which looked in genuine danger of dying out at the beginning of this century, and which has been kept on life-support throughout it by the poets as well as the politicians, I'd say that the health of language is something that needs to be guarded a bit more energetically than you'd think.
dd
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