Talk:alphabetism

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alphabetism

Suspect. I wavered between RFD and RFV, but have given it the benefit of the doubt and gone for RFV.

1. The definition contradicts definitions given elsewhere (Wikipedia, the OED, dictionary.com).
2. No citations are given to support the definition.
3. If this is a neologism/protologism, then Latin is unlikely to have had a word for it, so the Latin translation is highly unlikely, unless this is a Recent Latin coinage.

— Paul G 08:12, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Added a cite (minimal because NewspaperArchive is having server problems) and filled in some other definitions. Usage in this sense appears to date to the Carter administration in the US, but not to have been picked up much elsewhere; thus I am very suspicious of all the translations given, although I have left them for now. -- Visviva 09:11, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

May be also

Discrimination against the use of specific letters or writting systems.