No, the French language is not sexist.
Yes, spelling and grammar rules are beneficial.
No, the French language is not in danger, it is the users who are.
Author of around twenty works concerning the illiteracy of young adults, the learning of reading and language in children, the linguist Alain Bentolila, also a professor at the University of Paris-Descartes, publishes
Controverses on language French
(ESF Human Sciences), where he delivers his 51 truths to put an end to “hypocrisy and preconceived ideas”.
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LE FIGARO. - What is the reason that pushed you to write your 51 truths about the French language?
Alain BENTOLILA. -
This book is a response to the “dismayed linguists” who published a leaflet with this idea according to which the French language is doing wonderfully well, so “move along, there is nothing to see!”
We speak as we wish, we write as we wish, and all is well in the best of all possible worlds.
But…
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