The demagoguery of the Central Bank and inclusive language

08/07/2020 - 22:05

• Clarín.com
• Opinion

The Central Bank has decided to recommend the use of inclusive language.

Thus he extended his authority from monetary to linguistic. There is no display of supremacy greater than that of "allowing", suggesting and recommending how those who express themselves should express themselves.

It has attached to the majesty of its acronym BCRA, that of tacit RAE, admitting, or strictly promoting, that apotheosis of the "e", which, driven from the nomenclature, loses its eventual power.

As Deleuze and Guattari taught in that masterful text, “Kafka for a minor literature”; the language of the bureaucracy is that of the oppressor.

Kafka wrote in German, the administrative language of the courts and ministries in Prague during the Germanic expansion over Czechoslovakia at that time. Their mother tongues were Yiddish and Czech. Why write in German? Precisely, they infer, because that was the language of "The Trial" to which the dominated were subjected.

It is, of course, absurd.

"A minor literature is not the literature of a minor language, but the literature that a minority makes within a major language," say the authors.

Administrative dialects are minor by definition.

The language in Argentina and elsewhere is larger, more complex and richer than that of the ministerial provisions, minuscule in this case by opportunists and propagandists.

The searches for inclusive language are not refuted here per se , but its vertical implementation.

Contempt, discrimination and violence towards the feminine, and towards all genders in their diversity exists and it is not wrong to look for ways to eradicate these aberrations.

It would have been very convenient to this end not to release femicides and rapists , for example.

The new Babel has the approval of the senior employees of the entity's board of directors, mostly male rulers.

Should we then be grateful for the majestic consent granted from those heights?

The curious thing is that there is a properly inclusive letter: the "Y", that copulative conjunction, which for something is called "Greek", perhaps in homage to the creators of democracy.

It could not be ruled a priori what would be the tangible effect of the grammatical gates opened by the entity regarding eventual inflation, the alluvial issuance of banknotes, the fall in real wages, or the devastating malaria spread by the plague that has already It went from being viral to cultural, interspersing letters, "Letes" and other terminological mangers, brief and slight inconsistencies, with attached various memes on the networks.

In relation to the bizarre baptismal wave of the BCRA's own products, perhaps the “Leles” could be created, to forget the headaches that the ominous “Lelics” have generated us so deeply.

Linguistics with a numismatic spirit is rooted in a certain parallelism between currency and language. Currency is a language that represents things, values ​​and transactions.

In the absence of clearer policies with the twine itself (pardon the lunfardismo), administrative slang prescribes "kindly" over living and embodied speech.

The lunfardo did not display his popularity promoted by high state organisms, but by the properly terrestrial and literally popular underworld. Perhaps the lunfardo is in a period of cancellation because it did not come from the heights of morality descending from the authorities to the plebs, but vice versa.

The mob with its double “e” is now a term ─thanks to the heads of the coin─ favored and allowed by its correct non-binary sound. But strictly speaking, the aristocrats of the official commands need commoners to continue to rule and build inequity but declaim the opposite.

The mission of a Central Bank is to preserve the value of the currency , but for multiple reasons that would not be happening.

A nationalization of speech regulations is perceived. It is a slope towards prescription ambushed behind semiotic advice and suggestions. Of course, to speak, the passports granted are not necessary because those who lack a license to interfere institutionally in the language of anyone.

That garden of enunciative trinkets aims to cultivate the garden of the expansion of rights. But they never really deepen when they start from the scaffolding of the civil servant who operates under the implicit yoke of the ruling party hierarchies.

So, we should not only celebrate the agreement for the foreign debt, but also the papal dispensation of Pesce, the cis man who presides over the monetary entity. The semantic, syntactic, and political invitations of bureaucrats do not contribute to the richness of speech in general, but they do contribute to demagoguery.