Obviously, but there is a difference between obsolete language and ceremonial / official language. It would be like saying a lot of the words used in English for jurisprudence would be rare in common language.
The part about you getting into an argument about stroke order. Which, by the way, is very important unless you're a stupid weep writing one character for a message board instead of, you know, using the character to communicate.
Wait... are you actually trying to say that the volcanic activity in Iceland is somehow related to a temperature drop in AC?
That is functionally impossible and if you knew the first thing about the types of volcanic eruptions, you would know why it's functionally impossible.
All I'm getting from this thread is that Packard thinks a volcano is going to take out New Jersey before this year's superstorm wipes him off the face of his very very small Earth.