[philh]

Someone who says "essentially dead for all practical purposes" is likely not using the specific technical meaning.

Do you think gnipgnip believes something that isn't true, or do you think they're just using words differently to how you'd use them?

[sremani]

gnipgnip is first of all projecting, according to his analysis, Indians will stop talking local languages and adopt English and in 80 years its all over, India is an English speaking country, the flaw in that logic. The main problem is Indians do entertain themselves in their native languages, yes, many languages spoken by smaller groups of people are certainly under threat, but languages with currently massive footprints like Hindi, Telugu, Bengali etc. ain't going any where 80 years from now.