{"id":58558,"date":"2021-11-29T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T07:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/forums\/discussion\/non-binary-pronoun-provokes-furore-in-france"},"modified":"2021-11-29T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T07:03:38","slug":"non-binary-pronoun-provokes-furore-in-france","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/forums\/discussion\/non-binary-pronoun-provokes-furore-in-france","title":{"rendered":"Non-binary pronoun provokes furore in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an article in the smh by Roger Cohen and L\u00e9ontine Gallois
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https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/europe\/non-binary-pronoun-provokes-furore-in-france-derided-as-wokisme-20211129-p59cxv.html<\/p>\n

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Perhaps France was always going to have a hard time with nonbinary pronouns.<\/p>\n

Its language, like others stemming from Latin, is intensely gender-specific and fiercely protected by august authorities. Still, the furore provoked by a prominent dictionary\u2019s inclusion of the pronoun \u201ciel\u201d has been remarkably virulent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

French dictionary Le Petit Robert, rivalled only by the Larousse in linguistic authority, chose to add the gender-neutral merging of the masculine \u201cil\u201d (he) and the feminine \u201celle\u201d (she) to its latest online edition.<\/p>\n

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The Robert defines \u201ciel\u201d (pronounced roughly \u201cyell\u201d) as \u201ca third person subject pronoun in the singular and plural used to evoke a person of any gender\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For some time, a movement for \u201cinclusive writing\u201d has battled the linguistic establishment. It is broadly an attempt to wean the French language of its male bias. The Acad\u00e9mie rebuffed such attempts earlier this year. Its secretary-in-perpetuity, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Carr\u00e8re d\u2019Encausse, said that inclusive writing, even if it seemed to bolster a movement against sexist discrimination, \u201cis not only counterproductive for that cause but harmful to the practice and intelligibility of the French language\u201d<\/p>\n

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