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Purists alarmed over moves to make French less macho
Yahoo ^ | November 12, 2017 | Gina Doggett

Posted on 11/13/2017 6:46:00 AM PST by C19fan

Moves to make French more female-friendly have sparked impassioned debate in France, with an appalled Academie Francaise warning of a "mortal danger" to the language of Moliere.

At the centre of the debate is the growing use of formulations such as "lecteur.rice.s" for the word "readers" to embrace both genders.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; History; Society
KEYWORDS: feminism; france; french; gender; language
Macho as in the use of masculine for various nouns not the men.
1 posted on 11/13/2017 6:46:00 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

The self immolation of the West marches on............


2 posted on 11/13/2017 6:49:02 AM PST by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: C19fan

I did not think it was possible...................


3 posted on 11/13/2017 6:55:00 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: C19fan

There are some French men still macho? Who knew?
Actually there are. They’re Muslim! And they’re beyond macho. They are male supremacists.


4 posted on 11/13/2017 6:55:33 AM PST by winner3000
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To: headstamp 2



I travel to France quite extensively, and also to Quebec. Francophones seem to be pleased with the recent changes to their native language.


Marchons,
marchons!
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons!




مارتشونس، مارتشونس سانغ إمبور بريوف نوس سيلونس



5 posted on 11/13/2017 6:56:20 AM PST by golux
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To: C19fan

So does this mean there won’t be anymore French rap?


6 posted on 11/13/2017 7:08:14 AM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: C19fan

“French” and “macho” don’t occur in the same reality.


7 posted on 11/13/2017 7:17:12 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: C19fan

The number of languages that use grammatical gender to identify both animate and inanimate objects...

I can’t wait till the non-binaries begin to attack this across the planet.


8 posted on 11/13/2017 7:18:30 AM PST by Katya
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They plan to change thoughts by forcing changes in the language. They think that evil humans invented sex differences, and that we’re really all exactly the same, and that those nasty chromosomes were made up by bad patriarchal old men.

Except when it comes to sex-”change” operations, where they really believe that one can go from male to female by making the choice, or vice-versa. In that case, there are really only two sexes, their famous “binary.”

But when it comes to gay/lesbian/bi, there is no choice. One is born gay/lesbian/bi. It’s leftist dogma: you don’t choose to be gay. You are born gay.

Except that there is the gender continuum, a whole spectrum of genders, and that those stupid evil Christians insist on assigning you a gender at birth but you can choose whichever one you want at any time.

It serves no purpose to try to understand insanity. By definition, insanity is a mind (intellect/emotions) that is out of contact with reality. So it can’t be understood. Also, liberals say there is no reality, only “my” reality and “your” reality. No use trying to understand people who don’t admit that reality exists.


9 posted on 11/13/2017 7:48:19 AM PST by I want the USA back (ItÂ’s Ok To Be White. White Lives Matter. White Guilt is Socially Constructed)
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To: headstamp 2

The long march of Ethnomasochism continues.


10 posted on 11/13/2017 7:49:56 AM PST by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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To: Darksheare

The French Mistake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMK6lzmSk2o


11 posted on 11/13/2017 7:50:25 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Katya

Try mastering the gender confusion found in German or Russian. Both languages have masculine, feminine, and neuter genders for living as well as inanimate things.


12 posted on 11/13/2017 8:02:13 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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Yeah striped shirts and berets just conjure feelings of machoness


13 posted on 11/13/2017 8:42:16 AM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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