Kad pravopis, po „načelu proizvoljnosti“, unese zbrku gdje je bio red
When Orthography, Following the “Principle of Arbitrariness”, Brings Confusion into Order

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the spelling rule about the use of dashes to mark the reported speech in the “Croatian Orthography” published by the Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics (2013). This rule, namely, differs from the solutions in spelling manuals from the 1940s onwards and from the publishers’ and school speller practices that were uniform for at least 70-odd years. Analysing the principles stated in the foreword to “Croatian Orthography”, the author wants to show that this change is not based on any of these principles, but is, on the contrary, completely subjective. The author also wants to draw attention to the fact that authors of orthographic manuals should not have such great freedom in changing some established spelling rules.

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