Meaning of languagist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A linguist; one who is proficient in languages.
2. One who discriminates on the basis of language use.

Examples

“"Oh dear, dear!" said Miss⟳ Crocky, admiringly, " he is such a languagist ; isn't he, Miss⟳ Norah? I tell⟳ him he's thrown away here. His place⟳ is at courts, I'm sure."”

“'French ain't a hurtin' me,' says I, 'it's my English, I guess⟳ their French is mostly like⟳ that Pasadena woman's Herman's wife was a tellin' me about. Herself an' all her friends thought she was a fine French languagist, an' when she went into a restaurant in Paris the only way she could make⟳ the French waiter understand⟳ she wanted bread an' butter was a pintin' to it, an' then pintin' to her mouth.'”

“"Now you just get⟳ ahold of yourself, lady, and tell⟳ me what's going on. In English. I ain't no languagist, you hear⟳?””

“They can do with these all that the languagists claim⟳ to do, and more — save⟳ English for our children for, by the way they teach⟳ English the lifeblood has escaped, only the skeleton remains.”

“Identifying and curbing the activity of such ethnocentric languagist functionaries ought to rank high among Chicano political priorities .”

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