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killer language
noun
A dominant and prestigious language which gradually causes extinction of other, especially minor languages.
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But some survivors, refusing to echo the killers' language so closely, began speaking of "genocide," appropriating the word shared by English and French, Rwanda's secondary languages.
She's like a serial killer of language -- or whatever the opposite of a Rosetta Stone is".
Especially interesting is that Dutch seems to remain healthy despite coexisting in many spheres with English, which is often maligned as a local language killer.
The largest language "killers" are English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Hindi, and Chinese, all of which have privileged status as dominant languages threatening minority languages.
Luntz is like a serial killer of the English language.
Vergara is also executive producing ABC's "Killer Women," the English-language adaptation of Argentine series "Mujeres Asesinas".
Their rationale is two-fold: First, it's derived from the well-debunked myth that in the words of Men's Journal—soy is a "a man boob giving, estrogen-bestowing testosterone-killer". (Despite the language, the magazine concluded that "men shouldn't worry" about consuming soy products, and that it wouldn't negatively affect their muscle growth or their testosterone levels).
And songs such as the porno fantasy 'Hell of a Life' and the siren-slaying 'Devil in a New Dress' (featuring the consummately macho Ross) revive familiar mythologies about women — that they're monsters, killers, fallen angels — in language vibrant enough to fully revive these old stereotypes".
This logic can be audibly heard in this killer opener from Perverted By Language, recorded five years later.
The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force.
And here's Obama today at the U.N.: "The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force.
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