TY  - JOUR
AB  - Norms of huidiglik. In Afrikaans, huidiglik is a truly Janus-faced word: it is being used with high frequency in especially spoken language, while at the same time being one of the biggest language pet-peeves of language practitioners (and even ordinary speakers of Afrikaans). When asked why huidiglik should be avoided, these language practitioners and language users often cannot provide any reasoning about it. A comprehensive literature review also reveals that linguists and language practitioners often give contradictory, or even linguistically incorrect reasons for why huidiglik is supposedly not acceptable in (standard) Afrikaans. By comparing a variety of normative grammaticographic sources (such as reference guides and prescriptive grammars), this article shows that: (1) huidiglik originated, on a balance of probability, in the 1970s in the South African Parliament; and (2) apart from stylistic preferences (e.g. that it sounds pretentious, feigned and affectatious), none of the linguistic arguments against huidiglik holds water. In a supplementary article in this issue of the journal it is being illustrated that huidiglik is alive and well in written (Standard) Afrikaans.
AU  - Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B.
C1  - https://gerhard.pro/publications/VanHuyssteen2018b
DO  - https://doi.org/10.4102/lit.v39i2.1526
IS  - 2
KW  - Afrikaans
orthography
prescriptive linguistics
LA  - In: Afrikaans | On: Afrikaans
LB  - PublicationVanHuyssteen2018b
N1  - Afrikaans, ortografie, preskriptiewe linguistiek
PY  - 2018
SP  - a1526
ST  - Norme vir 'huidiglik' [Norms for 'huidiglik']
T2  - Literator
TI  - Norme vir 'huidiglik' [Norms for 'huidiglik']
VL  - 39
ID  - 4918
ER  -