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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
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Si se adoptara una ortografía fonética y sencilla, que, aprendida por todos pronto y bien, hiciera imposibles las faltas de ortografía, ¿no desaparecería uno de los modos de que nos distingamos las personas de buena educación de aquéllas que no han podido recibirla tan esmerada? Si la instrucción no nos sirve a los pocos para que nos diferenciemos de los pobres, ¿para qué nos sirve?
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