Ortografia limbii române – între realitate şi utopie
The Orthographic System of the Romanian Language – between Reality and Utopia

Summary/Abstract: Since 2005 the Romanian language has a new guideline for correct writing – the Dictionary of orthography, orthography and morphology of the Romanian language edited by the Romanian Academy. Even so they are a lot of problems in the correct writing of Roma-nian language, despite of the „phonetic” writing system of Romanian. The paper explains the important rules concerning the correct writing (phonetic principle, traditional principle, morphological principle, symbolic principle etc.), the short history of the standard language and some important aspects of the contemporary Romanian language. Some problems in the writing Romanian are focused on the possibility given by the dictionary to accept two correct forms of the same word or morphological category. It is difficult for a normal personal without higher education level or without linguistic knowledge to accept that plural of căpşună (strawberry) is căpşuni and căpşune, as well. Or to understand why philosopher in Romanian contemporary language can be written with s (filosof) or z (filozofie). An other discussion is about orthographical aspects in the printed press.

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