The author proposes that the notion of correctness would be replaced with the notion of proper language use. In this approach, the linguistic element (meaning, form, structure) is assessed in a specific statement, in given communicative circumstances, and not in isolation – in an absolute manner. In practice, in ortho-epic dictionaries, this aspect is actually omitted or the decisions on this issue are sometimes arbitrary, and as a result, the assessment is universal (without being dependent on the context). In the light of the avail-able representative text samples, we are able today to precisely define the scope of possible limitations in the occurrence of words, their meanings, structures, forms and combinations. The role of a linguist who popu-larizes the culture of language is to describe the aforementioned limitations as precisely as possible, by build-ing their profile (stylistic, chronological, environmental, domain, politeness, etc.).