Re: Catching up

On 12/09/2024 3:15 a.m., guido wugi wrote:

Op 11-9-2024 om 12:07 schreef Ross Clark:

5/9 Lewis Nkosi died (2010)  [South African writer]
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7/9    I.A.Richards died (1979) [...]
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10/9    Mary Wollstonecraft died (1797)
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11/9    Hannah Weiner died (1997)     (...)

 There's quite some dying going on in linguactivityland ;-)

I noticed, early in the year, that Crystal seemed to have more deathdays than birthdays in his book. It may be true, but I haven't bothered to count. I suppose you could argue that the stuff we remember people for tends to be closer to the former than the latter.