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Those excluded from inclusive writing

2021-02-08T19:43:25.160Z


ANALYSIS - According to many linguists, inclusive writing is basically an elitist struggle, rather urban and led by actors disconnected from the way the French practice the language.


The abbreviated doublets ("dear students, you are summoned to the university to come and meet your interlocutors"), the neologisms "iels" for "they and they", "celleux" for " those ”,“ the teaching staff ”rather than“ the teachers ”… Here are a few examples of how inclusive writing, increasingly common in universities, is manifested.

However, it appears obvious that the supporters of this militant grammar, who count among their opponents many linguists, pretend to ignore: inclusive writing, which would ensure equal visibility of women and men in the language (contrary to the well-known rule of the masculine which prevails over the feminine), excludes a whole part of the speakers.

Those who have learning difficulties and those who are attached to the intelligibility of French.

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"To make femmage", or when feminism sinks into the linguistic imposture

Indeed, there is a reality of linguistic uses.

Admittedly, this form of writing can now be read in union press releases, administrative emails,

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Source: lefigaro

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