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 will always 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.”

Languagism by EriTanaka June 28, 2016

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Languagist

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.”

Languagist by EriTanaka June 27, 2016

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languagist

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"

languagist by big nickie H June 18, 2009

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languagism

A form of discrimination, it is the negative reaction to the fear of what someone is saying in a language that is not understood, thus leading to anger against the speaker of another language, even if that language is native to the speaker.

In a recent incident related on the nativenewsnetwork website, a Menominee seventh grader was suspended from school for teaching a classmate how to say "I love you" in her native tongue. Her teacher, hearing but not understanding the child's native tongue, reacted by having her suspended from school. In discussing the incident, we decided the teacher was guilty of languagism.

languagism by LazyK.i.am March 14, 2012

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