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A new morpheme survives the novelty of its first innovation (like telethon for - athon ) because it turns out to be useful, almost as if by accident, and brings something new into the idiom.
What then survives?
The Oedipus story survives, the paper said, "because it embodies the deep human sense that free will is a fragile thing, and no inheritance, however noble, frees one from the mark of sin.
Skeptics will carp that it is not critical whether the department survives, but whether its programs do.
A block or so away, Ronda’s original mosque survives in the form of the Church of Santa María la Mayor.