"We recommend avoiding generalizing and often dehumanizing labels such as "the poor," "the mentally ill," "the French," "the disabled," "those with college degrees."
"The French"? Damn!
The claim to contribute to the social progress of inclusive writing (IE) is based on false premises, linked to a partial interpretation distorting the reality of the attested grammatical functioning of the French language. Inclusive writing is a militant reform of the language built on the denunciation of imaginary injustices deriving from symbolic interpretations that do not correspond to any strictly linguistic reality. It intends to inscribe various gender identities or to "make women visible", political marketing that has nothing in common with the description of the nominal classes of French and constitutes a political claim based on beliefs and not on empirically verified knowledge. Its supporters, even among linguists, prescribe works and references that go against the methods, data and knowledge accepted in language sciences.
Several studies show that parents perceive girls as less gifted in mathematics, less interested in this discipline, and therefore more compelled to work to succeed. Perhaps more importantly, these perceptions persist even when girls obtain identical or even higher grades than boys! Jussim and Eccles surveyed a hundred mathematics teachers about the competence and effort made in this discipline by each of the students in their 6th grade class (ages 11-12).
[by Francis Éponge] Many spectacular advances have been made in recent times thanks to the brilliant work of our colleagues at the French University in order to introduce better consideration of diversity in the French language via
[by Mikhail Kostylev] Christmas is coming! Unfortunately, due to the health crisis and the national deficit, we won't be able to hire the Old Bearded Man this year - he's actually taking his third dose at Tromsø hospital. And who should be there?
[by Mikhail Kostylev] In "The Magnificent Seven" (a wonderful film that all Russians of my generation know, the Soviet censors having miraculously let it pass in the East), two cowboys enter a tavern to hire men.
[by Guillaume PRONESTI] The "iel" affair, which came right in the middle of the debates on the infiltration of activists into schools, caused some stir. Perplexity was general among linguists... of all sides, even among the very progressive Bernard Cerquiglini.
[by Yana Grinshpun] This phrase, when searched on Google, gives 129000 results for the worst and for the best. The first article that comes up is that of the women's magazine Grazia. The newspaper offers an article on the "
A lot of woke or questionable content is present on the platform https://www.lumni.fr/ which was recommended to all students, from kindergarten to high school, during the lockdown. An “educational platform” offering numerous educational resources, https://www.lumni.fr/ bears the “Nation” label
[by Yana Grinshpun] “Whose son am I?” (Sophocles, Oedipus the King) “Beware of all those who talk much about their righteousness! Truly, it is not only honey that is lacking in their souls. And if they call themselves “the good