Inclusive writing definitely knows no laws.
Banned since the circular of November 21, 2017 from former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe in
the Official Journal
of the Republic, it remains however used by some for better or for worse.
Several candidates marked on the left persist in using it.
Still they would have to know how to control it!
Jadot, Mélenchon, Poutou, all tripped over the carpet.
Proof to the absurd that inclusive writing is unusable.
Yannick Jadot, the winner
Tweets, speeches, letters to the French… Inclusive writing is everywhere at the heart of the presidential campaign of the candidate of the Greens.
Which is hardly surprising: his political party has been campaigning for several years for inclusive writing to become the norm in the public sphere.
On one of the leaflets distributed by the candidate's teams, we can find, as expected, the famous midpoint on each line.
However, the grammatical logic of this supposedly egalitarian form of writing is not always respected.
Le Figaro
has indeed noted many errors.
For example, in the text of his program, it is written: “
We will increase the number of beds and caregivers
”, the feminine agreement of the word “
caregiver
” has obviously been forgotten.
Further, “
we will recruit 3000 magistrates and magistrates
”, the midpoint is used here whereas it was not necessary with the duplicate.
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A few lines later, we read: "
we will create within each prosecution an environmental pole composed of at least three magistrates
", the Greens did not consider it necessary to use the midpoint to feminize the function.
"
They and they (the French) are committed to the path of ecology
": here too, the agreement for "
them
" has not been respected according to the logic of inclusive writing, "
committed
" instead of "
committed
".
"
I also want to reach out to those who are wondering, ready to take a step aside, curious about something new
": here, the agreement of the adjective "
curious
" in the feminine was not applied while the midpoint is present.
Elsewhere, it is written “
teachers are exhausted
”, the midpoint is absent although it is used later on the same word: “
we will better recognize the teaching profession
”.
The candidate of the Greens finally uses inclusive writing in a very random way.
Could it be that it is counter-intuitive or illegible?
Anne Hidalgo, the reluctant supporter of inclusive writing
The mayor of Paris, yet known for her positions in favor of inclusive writing, as shown by the episode of the plaques of the town hall of Paris re-engraved in 2019 to add the midpoint, did not however see fit to apply it to his presidential programme.
The one who decided in 2017 to keep the practice of inclusive writing in official texts despite the Prime Minister's instructions to stop using it, does not use the midpoint once and no feminization of functions and trades. is not applied.
A misinterpretation compared to its last positions on the subject… One wonders then;
would inclusive writing be of too limited a use for the candidate who wishes
to address “all French people
”?
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At Jean-Luc Mélenchon, no inclusive writing
The candidate from insubordinate France has never really spoken about inclusive writing.
On the other hand, for her movement, the objective is clear: “
We want to make women more visible by addressing them directly.
We do this either by using the masculine and the feminine, or by using epicene words, or by using the famous midpoint
,
”
explained to Figaro Sarah Legrain, LFI executive.
And yet, in the candidate's program, inclusive writing is totally absent.
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It is only if we notice once the use of “
all and all
” in the text of his presidential program: “
On the contrary, we think that we must work less and better to work all and all
”.
The rest of the time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon makes it short by using only “
all
”: “
all citizens are equal
”.
Poutou, the worker who tries his hand at inclusion
For the candidate of the New Anti-Capitalist Party, it is "
Too late to be moderate
".
Thus, inclusive writing holds its place at the heart of Philippe Poutou's program.
However, the agreement of adjectives does not always seem easy to respect for the worker candidate.
If the hospital staff members are “
exhausted
”, why does the following adjective “
replaced
” not agree according to the reasoning of inclusive grammar?
The same goes for “
skilled and underpaid employees
”...
Macron and Roussel, those who
"
forget
"
to include their competitors
We can find this same type of inconsistency on the site of the French Communist Party where Fabien Roussel never fails to speak of "
citizens
" or "
employees and their representatives
" but which fails to grant in the feminine "
each candidate
".
Has the president of the PCF forgotten that he will be running for the Elysée seat with four other candidates?
This error is reminiscent of that of Emmanuel Macron during his wishes addressed to the French at the end of the year where, after having placed his legendary "
all and all
", the president will have declared that the moment of ' '
Elect the President of the Republic
», thus excluding any possibility for a woman to access the presidential seat.
Involuntary omission or expression of one's own ambitions?
Be that as it may, the rigor of this inclusive language is not acquired everywhere and for everyone...
