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Orthography
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Per a l'"Académie" barroca l'ortografia distingeix els lletrats dels ignorants... i de les dones... El desvelament del caràcter de les ortografies arbitràries com a reproductores de les relacions classistes/sexistes, com a causa de dualització social, com a enemigues de la cohesió social queda agudament, sarcàsticament enunciat per la veu d'Unamuno.
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Intellectuals in all three regions called for the creation of a high-culture tongue that would be capable of functioning in all ways that English and French are wont to do. It would be more learned and, at the same time, more all-embracing. On the agenda were the following: lexical enrichment of the vernacular; a bridging of the dialects and the attainment of a form of linguistic unity by adopting a uniform, unified 'rational' orthography; the creation of scholarly, standardized dictionaries and
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― Minority Literatures and Modernism: Scots, Breton, and Occitan, 1920 - 1990
― Minority Literatures and Modernism: Scots, Breton, and Occitan, 1920 - 1990
