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- noun linguistics the creation of a non-standard form by mimicking the standard dialect.
Etymologies
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hyper- + urbanism
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I am told by one of my linguist friends that this might be called "hyperurbanism," but I'm not sure that it isn't simply linguistic ethnocentricity, or perhaps even a form of xenophobia.
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