Abstract In the first part of the article, a critical commentary is given on the response of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia to the statement of the Commission for Slovenian Language in Public at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The second part of the paper presents a draft contribution regarding the relationship between philosophy and mother tongue delivered at the conference "Linguistic Self-Consciousness-Existence and Development of Mother Tongue Depend upon Us Ourselves," which was held on June 14, 2019, at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Pogost ocitek raziskovalcem in raziskovalkam najrazlicnejsih raziskovalnih polj in znanstvenih podrocij, ki se zavzemajo za razvijanje znanstvene rabe slovenscine, je, da so »zaostalezi v 19. stoletju«. Znanstvene rabe slovenskega jezika zato ne moremo omejiti in omejevati zgolj na t. i. nacionalne vede (glede te oznake se ni bil sprejet strokovni konsenz, kaj naj bi se pod njo uvrscalo, in je nasploh neoperativna!), niti ne zadeva zgolj oblikovanja terminology, marvec celotno znanstveno dejavnost, ki je povezana z medijem slovenskega jezika in se na njegovi podlagi siri tudi na podrocja kulture, izobrazevanja in javnega obvescanja.