sprogrenser
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Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]sprog (“language”) + rense (“clean”) + -er
Noun
[edit]sprogrenser
- (dated) linguistic purist
- 1952, Danske studier:
- Som bekendt var Johannes V. Jensen ikke sprogrenser, hans forbrug af fremmedord er overordentligt stort.
- As is known, Johannes V. Jensen was no linguistic purist, his use of loanwords that at the time of usage still felt foreign is extremely great.
- 1913, Jens Byskov, Modersmaalet:
- Poesien ynder ikke fremmede Ord, og naar den optræder som Sprogrenser, er det slet ikke af nationale Grunde, men af rent sproglige.
- Poetry does not favour foreign words, and when it appears as a linguistic purist, it is not at all for national reasons, but for purely lingual ones.
- 1832, Edvard Storm, Digte:
- Jeg kan neppe bare mig for at lee, naar jeg seer en Sprogrenser, klæd i fremmed contrebande Tøi, efterjaqende fremmede Manerer indtil den franske Snøvlen, kort sagt, upatriotisk i sin hele Tænkemaade, buldre for Ex. imod det fattige Ord Jalousie, som enhver Kieldermand forstaaer, og i den Sted anbefale Aabryne, som knap alle de Lærde kiende.
- I can hardly keep myself from laughing, beholding a linguistic purist, dressed in foreign [?] clothes, hunting foreign mannerisms even unto the French snuffling, in brief, unpatriotic in his/her entire way of thinking, rage against e.g. the poor word Jalousie [jealousy], which is known to any uneducated person [lit. "cellar-man", other senses include "grocer having a shop in a cellar", "dead person"], recommending in its place Aabryne, which is scarcely known to all the learned.
Declension
[edit]Declension of sprogrenser
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sprogrenser | sprogrenseren | sprogrensere | sprogrenserne |
genitive | sprogrensers | sprogrenserens | sprogrenseres | sprogrensernes |