On the Status of the Regional Tongues vernacular_events.1 · dlc016
Arguing in favour of the universalisation of the … language, prominent politicians and intellectuals have pushed for harsh assimilation measures targeting …'s regional language speakers.
While it would be genuinely liberating for a single global language to exist, that is not politically feasible, but a single language inside the state would be a viable project. — Henri Grégoire, Report on the Necessity and Means to Annihilate the Patois and to Universalise the Use of the French Language
In …, One Speaks … vernacular_events.2 · dlc016
The assimilation efforts have borne fruits, and once-dominant … are now merely found on the lips of rural hermits and stubborn old crones.
"My grandfather once told me about this village, having passed through it much the same way I do now: to catalogue every man, woman, babe, and beast known to God Almighty and the state. 'Back then', he said. 'the beasts and the babes were more comprehendible than their elders'. Hah! How much can change in the span of a generations or two, good sir. How much indeed... "..." "What?" "Comprehensible, sir.
A Realm of Many Tongues vernacular_events.3 · dlc016
With the status of regional languages of … now recognized and protected by law, the country's uneasy relationship with regional identitarianism has been settled at last.
Processing local petitions had never been an easy task, but after the introduction of the new regulations it had turned nightmarish. Any country bumpkin with a penny to his name was now sending their thoughts to him in writ: a confounded cacophony of words and expressions no gentleman of … would ever deign to utter! 'No' he thought to himself and shook his head. In the good old days, such men would never dare to engage with the state apparatus.
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