| | LINGUIST List 15.2089: Obituary for Haruhiko Kindaichi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Haruhiko KINDAICHI, who happened to be as well-known among linguists as his late father Kyosuke Kindaichi died on May 20, 2004 at the age of 91 in Kofu near his vacation home. |
 | | Kindaichi graduated from the department of Japanese literature at Tokyo University, and worked as a professor at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and later on at Sophia University. |
 | | Regarding recent changes in colloquial Japanese usage, Kindaichi took the view that this was nothing new, since language is a tool of human communication bound to change over time: "Rather than be angry at today's young people for mutilating the language, I wish you'd look upon them kindly and with patience", he commented. |
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