Bastardisation or bastardization may refer to: *

Corruption (linguistics) Language change is the process of alteration in the features of a single language, or of languages in general, over time. It is studied in several subfields of linguistics: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and evolutionary linguistics. ...

, the idea that language change constitutes a degradation in the quality *

Hazing Hazing (American English), initiation, beasting (British English), bastardisation (Australian English), ragging (South Asian English) or deposition refers to any activity expected of someone in joining or participating in a group that humiliates, ...

, activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group *

Hybridisation (biology) In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different variety (botany), varieties, subspecies, species or genus, genera through sexual reproduction. Generally, it means that each cell has gene ...

, mixing two animals or plants of different breeds, varieties, species or genera

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