Meaning

A linguist; one who is proficient in languages..

Definitions by Sense

1. A linguist; one who is proficient in languages.
2. One who discriminates on the basis of language use.

Example Sentences

"Oh dear, dear!" said Miss Crocky, admiringly, " he is such a languagist ; isn't he, Miss Norah? I tell him he's thrown away here. His place is at courts, I'm sure."

'French ain't a hurtin' me,' says I, 'it's my English, I guess their French is mostly like that Pasadena woman's Herman's wife was a tellin' me about. Herself an' all her friends thought she was a fine French languagist, an' when she went into a restaurant in Paris the only way she could make the French waiter understand she wanted bread an' butter was a pintin' to it, an' then pintin' to her mouth.'

"Now you just get ahold of yourself, lady, and tell me what's going on. In English. I ain't no languagist, you hear?”

They can do with these all that the languagists claim to do, and more — save English for our children for, by the way they teach English the lifeblood has escaped, only the skeleton remains.

Identifying and curbing the activity of such ethnocentric languagist functionaries ought to rank high among Chicano political priorities .

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