If the kids find their grandparents' language uncool, all of the well-intentioned outside help by linguists is usually in vain, except for preserving the language as a museum-piece.

Designer Maarten Baas adapted his Real Time Analog Digital Clock, originally a museum piece, into a one dollar iPhone app.

Some argued that if you raised the price of the magazine in the way that he had done during his editorship then you also risked becoming a museum piece.