Noun:
1. A person who believes that some languages are clearly superior to others
Adjective:
1. Having or showing the belief that one language(s) is clearly superior to others
“On the blog they shared many languagist comments which offended many Japanese people. There was outcry to shut the blog down, but free speech ,in English at least, was triumphant.”
The act of discriminating against those who don't share your native toungue. Most often used by ignorant, unintelligent people who have difficultly expressing themselves without using the words "uh" and "you know?".
"I'm not racist for hating people who don't speak English, I'm a languagist"
Languages that formed from ancient Latin dialects spoken mainly in Rome. Languages include Spanish, French, Portugese, Catalan, Langue d'oc, Italian, Sardinian, and Romanian. These languages tend to share many similar structural and pronunciational guidelines and similarly spelled words.
Noun:
1. the belief that not all languages are created equal and do not share equal beauty or function. Also the belief that the spoken language willalways sound equally bad or good despite the speaker for any set language.
“Their languagism made them avoid the foreign movie while it was in theaters, their friends raved about it later, but they refused to watch something in German even if it was the movie of the century.”
A language family that includes Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian as well as a lot of minority languages in Russia. Named after Ural mountains, their assumed place of origin.
Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.
After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.
Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.