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Is the language that is degraded into slang and blasphemy by the tyrants of the entertainment industry and politics sacred? Are the words that were so guarded, cherished, nicknamed - regardless of their Serbian, Slovak, Jewish, German, Romanian origin - the greatest sons of the Hungarian people, writers, poets, actors, real statesmen? Do words that have been stripped of their meaning remain sacred? (...) Is it a coincidence that the Greek and Latin high cultures put the artists of language, the masters of rhetoric on a pedestal, and chased away from the public the corrupters of language and style. They knew well that when they protect the purity of the language, they protect their country, they protect the culture that they loved and respected as their motherland.

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Is the language that is degraded into slang and blasphemy by the tyrants of the entertainment industry and politics sacred? Are the words that were so guarded, cherished, nicknamed - regardless of their Serbian, Slovak, Jewish, German, Romanian origin - the greatest sons of the Hungarian people, writers, poets, actors, real statesmen? Do words that have been stripped of their meaning remain sacred? (...) Is it a coincidence that the Greek and Latin high cultures put the artists of language, the masters of rhetoric on a pedestal, and chased away from the public the corrupters of language and style. They knew well that when they protect the purity of the language, they protect their country, they protect the culture that they loved and respected as their motherland.

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Hungarian

"Szent-e a nyelv, amit szlenggé, gyalázkodássá aljasítanak a szórakoztató ipar és a politika pojácái? Szentek-e a szavak, amit annyira őriztek, ápoltak, becéztek - szerb, szlovák, zsidó, német, román származásuktól függetlenül - a magyar nép legnagyobb fiai, írók, költők, színészek, igazi államférfiak? Szentek maradtak-e a szavak, amelyeket megfosztottak értelmüktől? (...) Véletlen-e, hogy a görög és latin magas kultúrák piedesztálra emelték a nyelv művészeit, a retorika mestereit, és elkergették a nyilvánosság elől a nyelv, a stílus megrongálóit. Jól tudták, hogy amikor a nyelv tisztaságát védik, a hazájukat védik, azt a kultúrát védik, amelyet szülőanyjukként szerettek és tiszteltek."

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