No at the midpoint.
This is how we could summarize the subject of the email received by agents of the Grand Est regional council, working at the Strasbourg headquarters, Wednesday March 13, according to information revealed by BFM Alsace.
According to online and regional media Rue89Strasbourg, the order is issued by Nicolas Pernot, Director General of Services (DGS).
In this internal email, the latter specifies that “
so-called “inclusive” writing is prohibited in the drafting of letters, notes, reports, wishes, motions, acts, deliberations and any other document emanating from the community”.
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An instruction which also applies to
"attached [...] documents"
.
To justify this directive, Nicolas Pernot recalls that inclusive writing hinders reading and pronunciation.
“So-called “inclusive” writing results in a fragmentation of words and agreements which constitutes a barrier to understanding the written word
,” he said.
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In the footsteps of the 2017 circular
Questioned by Rue89Strasbourg, the Grand Est Region notably mentioned the circular of November 21, 2017 issued under Édouard Philippe, then prime minister.
The head of government had
“invited”
his ministers not to use this controversial writing rule, “
in particular for texts intended to be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic
”.
The Grand Estoise administration also cited another circular from the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, dating from May 5, 2021, which had prohibited its application in schools.
And as a third point, she recalled the adoption, by the Senate on October 30, of the bill aimed at prohibiting the use of inclusive writing (in particular the midpoint or the pronoun “iel”) in professional but also commercial and public information documents.
Returned to the National Assembly, the bill to limit its use was adopted in committee by the deputies.
The law would probably be promulgated in May-June, “if everything goes well,” the rapporteur and LR deputy for Seine-et-Marne, Jean-Louis Thiériot,
told Le
Figaro .
“The email from the general director of services of March 13 is part of regular reminders of this rule internally to all agents. This rule will be recalled in the “Guide to the rules of written communication” which is currently being finalized and which will very soon be distributed to all agents,”
concluded the community in its response to our colleagues from Rue89Strasbourg.