How can we Save The Words?

I just learned that the Oxford English Dictionary has abandoned their SaveTheWords.org project; no more do they champion those neglected words in danger of extinction, so that you could adopt them, and cherish them, and wear them on your t-shirt...

The English language is shrinking; which means that wonderful, essential words like these are cast into the merciless waters of the digital age. How can we salvage the likes of these beauties from the hazards of text messaging?

Pamphagous = eating up everything in sight

Gleimous = slimy, full of phlegm

Squiriferous = having the character or qualities of a gentleman

Pigritude = laziness

Canitude = greyness, hoariness; whiteness

Here is an archive, where you can hear the endangered words plead their own case:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110325150610/http://www.savethewords.org/

Oh my gosh! This was so fun! I did not know a word can go extinct! I went to the link and found a few fun ones myself! :0)

1) Boreism: Behaviour of a boring person.

2) Theomeny: The fury of God.

Here is one we are hearing a lot of the last year/year and a half.....

3) Tortiloquy: Dishonest or immoral speech! LOL!

4) Nequient: Unable

5) Foppotee: A simple minded person

Here are two we Blurters should memorize........

6) Quaeritate: To ask

7) Rogitate: To ask regularly

I wouldn't say the language is shrinking so much as evolving. Our English is a living language, new terms replace old ones, other words just become obsolete.

Why say "pulchritude" when "beauty" sounds so much better. I don't recall the last time I heard of someone going to a "cotillion", or out on a "peregrination".

I think of how many synonyms and antonyms there are for just about every word we can name (or cite, mention, select, specify, designate, put a finger on, or adduce).

To me, a vocabulary is one of those things you can never have too much of --- along with joy, imagination or integrity

ikr, it's rly a shame + the list is proly gonna get smlr.

I'm gonna take a different tack. Words that still exist but have very little relevance.

Like telegraphist:  We all know that was an old-time Morse operator but it's somebody who no longer exists.

What about comptometrist?  They were the girls who operated those whopping great accounting machines that died out in the 1960s.

And prophet.  Where are all the Daniels and Ezekiels these days? The guys who sit with their computers trying to prophecy the weather aren't a patch on them.

And the greatest loss of all: Aphrodite's priestesses. Where have all the sacred prostitutes gone? Goodness me, even the word is becoming tainted with disuse. They're sex workers now.

So lets not be too sad about dead words. Where are all the clamouring conservationists bewailing the loss of all those old occupations?

I can't remember things for too long. I find it frustrating to learn new words so I'd be fine with some words dying out, honestly.