 Linguistically, Rovira i Virgili unconditionally adopted and followed Pompeu Fabra's new orthographic and grammatical proposals for the Catalan language at a time when these proposals had not even received institutional support as of yet.Rovira i Virgili was not the only follower of Fabra's proposals to do so, but as he was a reputed journalist, his adherence to Fabra's teachings constituted a notable and representative example of a growing phenomenon during the last decade of the 20th century