Yesterday the BBC was reporting that two elderly men in the state of Tobasco in Mexico, the last two speakers of their local indigenous language (one of 350 in Mexico) have had a falling out as a result of which they are no longer speaking to one another, thereby delivering the coup de grace to one more fine piece of of human creative output. It seemed funny in a rather tragic way, at the time.
The report included speculation that the origins of the argument were connected with the floods that recently devestated that part of Mexico.
Awkwardly today's BBC version is a refined version of the story, complete with input from an expert on Mexican indigenous languages, suggesting a more prosaic and less bathetic story. Turns out these two old codgers never were close and have little in common.
But congratulations to the BBC for (belatedly) injecting balance into the story.
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