Japanese words that are dying out: focus on diabetes
From The Japan Times:
A foray into the realm of Japanese ‘dead words’
Trendy buzzwords tend to be most at risk of dying out as they often reflect ideas and trends that are fleeting.
By Tadasu Takahashi
Staff writer
Oct 31, 2023
Sometimes whole languages go extinct, more often certain words within languages cease to exist as part of the living lexicon. There are political, demographic, and other socioeconomic reasons why languages disappear. The reasons why individual words die out are related more to fashion — in culture, science, and similar emotional and intellectual reasons.
Tadasu Takahashi's interesting article provides some specific examples from contemporary Japanese language.
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