Although Y Gwyll was cunningly shot twice, in Welsh and English, to double its saleability – a trick first pulled by Aberyswyth CSI-foreshadowing 90s police hit A Mind to Kill – language is no longer a barrier.
It could even be part of a larger scheme: India's zombification of the English language — killing words and phrases, and then bringing them back to life in a brain-dead disfigured form that seeks out healthy humans as prey.
Supporters say killing the language will be more difficult this year.
In the Peru and Ladakh chapters, for example, he considers the baleful potency of roads in killing indigenous languages and cultures, then reminds us that many, perhaps most, local people want those roads.
"And no amount of human effort can kill a language".
"Even in 1999 or 2000, people were saying technology killed their language," Slaughter says.
The show is packed with dance, but it never kills the language or overpowers the strong individual characteristation such as Paul Nicholas's sleek, black, fur-lined Rum Tum Tugger or Elaine Paige's mournful, spangled Grizabella, who evokes the Tottenham Court Road at three in the morning.
More research is necessary to determine precisely what it is about economic development that kills languages, he adds.
Canada has all but killed our languages.
Some Democrats have suggested that the "job-killing" language was particularly offensive after the shootings, but Republicans rejected that notion.
