Efforts to Standardize the Spelling of a Language

question 28

Multiple Choice

Efforts to standardize the spelling of a language

• A)are apolitical, and generally only of interest to linguists.
• B)reveal the language ideology of the standardizers.
• C)inevitably result in improvements appreciated by all users of the language.
• D)are completely separate from standardization of pronunciation

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