purism
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Purism in linguistics refers to a strict adherence to or insistence on purity in language use. A purist is someone who is preoccupied with the purity of a language and its protection from foreign or altered forms. This often involves having strong ideas about what is correct and opposing changes to traditional language practices. Purists may be critical of certain words or phrases, viewing them as incorrect or unacceptable. This adherence to purity can sometimes be excessive.12345
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- Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian languageWriting, pronunciation, and spelling
…a favourite cultural practice of purism, seeking to replace foreign words with old or newly coined Croatian ones. For Serbian univerzitet ‘university,’ Croatian combined sve ‘all’ and učilište ‘place of learning’ to yield sveučilište. Serbia, for its part, accepted Vuk Karadžić’s new standard and simpler Cyrillic letters but changed one…
Read More…a favourite cultural practice of purism, seeking to replace foreign words with old or newly coined Croatian ones. For Serbian univerzitet ‘university,’ Croatian combined sve ‘all’ and učilište ‘place of learning’ to yield sveučilište. Serbia, for its part, accepted Vuk Karadžić’s new standard and simpler Cyrillic letters but changed one…
Read More - Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian languageSerbo-Croatian in the 20th century and after
…Croatia there is only Croatian; purism, including the practice of proscribing certain words because of their real or alleged Serbian origin, was strong in the 1990s, though somewhat weaker after 2000. The standardizers of Croatian no longer consult Serbian scholars, nor do linguists in Serbia seek input from Croatia.
Read More…Croatia there is only Croatian; purism, including the practice of proscribing certain words because of their real or alleged Serbian origin, was strong in the 1990s, though somewhat weaker after 2000. The standardizers of Croatian no longer consult Serbian scholars, nor do linguists in Serbia seek input from Croatia.
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