Pro mně za mně, myslete si o mě… Příspěvek k otázce jazykové správnosti
A Contribution to the Issue of the Linguistic Correctness

Summary/Abstract: In the focus of this contribution is the ortography of grammatical case forms of the personal pronoun já, namely the shapes of the genitive/accusative (mě/mě) and dative/local (mi, mně / mně). It is quite often mistaken in this phenomenon – it is written mně instead of mě and also mě instead of mně. The author considers the possible causes of this error. At first, the following three are listed: 1) homophony, 2) insufficient knowledge of ortographical rule, 3) misidentification of the case. Then he raises the question of whether the other reason for misspelling could be the tendency of the language users to analogously treat those units that are close to each other in the language system (in the case of pronouns, it is primarily pronoun ty). The author intends to indicate through the observed phenomenon (misspelling mě and mně) his opinion on the question of so-called linguistic correctness. The main purpose of the text is to show how (according to the author) it should be treated when someone expresses in inconsistency with codification and/or norm and/or our linguistic awareness. The essence of the linguistic work should be the search for causes in these cases.

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