We can kill time, but language kills us.
"Morta a lingua, mortu u populu" ("kill the language, kill the people") reads one message scrawled in Corsican on a wall just off the Rampe Paoli, the main street.
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.
"If you could unleash the trigger of the virus before it reaches the cell, you would for all practical purposes irreversibly inactivate, or to use more drastic language, kill the virus," Klasse said.
But repeated disputes over the expense of translations into all of the official European languages killed those initiatives.
In the last 18 months, Basque separatists, known as E.T.A. (the initials stand for Basque Homeland and Freedom in the Basque language), have killed 30 people and threatened thousands more.
Witnesses said a large number were tested in their knowledge of Islamic scripture and the Somali language, and killed if they failed.
The separatist group, whose initials stand for Basque Homeland and Freedom in the Basque language, has killed 800 people in more than 30 years of war.
Whatever concerns there might have been that Shakespeare's language would kill the class vanish.
But here's the thing: you can't "preserve" a language without killing it.
