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Orthography
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A França l'ortografia gaudeix d'un estatut social d'obligació i de control que l'han convertit en una veritable institució; unes pràctiques rigoroses en matèria de correcció transformen l'ortografia en la més aspra de les proves selectives.
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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