A bill supported by sixty deputies calls for a ban on inclusive writing in administrative documents.
Three years ago, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe published a circular banning this practice.
At the same time, the Académie française qualified it as
"confusion bordering on illegibility".
Nothing worked.
Here a university, there a public institution invariably begin their letters with dear students or collaborators.
Hence the cry of alarm of elected officials who appeal to the ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts: in 1539, the king had imposed French in the texts relating to public life.
Its goal: to strengthen the unity of a country.
Inclusive writing is a strange technique that looks like it came from the smoky mind of a computer coding student who fell in love with a grammar: writing 2.0 ... It is neither graceful nor practical and offends the musicality of the language by Ronsard and Musset.
But she seems to have hypnotized
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