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language police
n. Any person or group crusading for a particular usage or omission within a language; also called ''language cops'', ''tongue troopers''.
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Language police
Language police may refer to:
- The Language Police, a book by Diane Ravitch
- Latvian State Language Center, a Latvian government body
- State Language Inspectorate, a Lithuanian government body
- Language Inspectorate, an Estonian government body
- Office québécois de la langue française, a Quebec government office
- Minister of Culture (France), a French office known as the "language police"
Usage examples of "language police".
Thanks to the language police, you can say goodbye to Shakespeare, Hemingway, and Chaucer.
It was decorated-to use the word as loosely as the language police would allow -in a style best described as Early Garage Sale, though it was even more Spartan than the family room.