Jean-Marie Rouart is a member of the Académie française.
A language like belonging to a country is a common good.
To benefit from their protection and the advantages they provide us, we agree to submit to their laws, their rules, their customs, because that is the condition of a collective agreement.
This submission does not happen without some form of sacrifice and frustration.
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The "pronoun", a new fight for activists in inclusive writing
The French language, since it is it that is constantly called into question, must it submit obediently to all individual or category aspirations?
The desire to introduce the artificial pronoun "iel" as the Robert dictionary does, is only the tail of the pressure exerted by the proponents of inclusive writing.
It would be wrong to take lightly these folk sprains made to our language, they are the symptoms of a profound illness.
We have always known that languages contain essential values: they are not only a means of communication.
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