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Igel

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Sat Sep-13-08 10:53 PM
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5. I distinguish two terms.

"Elite" and "elitist". I like keeping them separate; they mean different things. One can be elite without thinking it makes you a superior person.

However, I have no expectations that people will maintain the difference, now that it's becoming obscured. Bartoli was right, even though he had mostly phonology in mind: mergers proceed at the expense of differences. People decide language; they decide to merge the terms, to make the distinction moot, they'll either decide the distinction is meaningless (a mistake on my part, but that's their choice) or find another way to express it.

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