Student calls on Georgetown University to ‘begin the conversation’ about ‘gender-neutral' version of Arabic

Campus Reform ^ | April 27, 2021 | Abigail Streetman

[C19fan]

Donovan Barnes, a first year student at Georgetown University, recently published a “viewpoint” article in the school’s student newspaper titled “Develop Gender-Neutral Language in Arabic.”

Barnes’ March 25 op-ed in The Hoya expresses the opinion that “to aid the fight for gender inclusivity in the Arabic language, Georgetown students and instructors have the responsibility to work toward language that includes all gender identities, not just identities within the cisnormative male and female binary.”

The student explained that he is studying Arabic at Georgetown and had “valid concerns” coming into the program because he is learning a language that is “radically different from [his] first language, English.”

[PGR88]

He’s getting. lot of pushback from the kiddies at Hoya - for exactly that - he’s white, American, male, “leave Arab culture alone” etc...

Its again clear to me that woke, PC culture is merely a tool to destroy the West. Leftists of other cultures fully support this movement in the West, but definitely not in their own.

I once angered a woke, NY leftist hippie by telling them the Dalai Lama was gay. I asked: “what’s wrong with that? Its a great thing!”

[TokarevM57]

...correct.... and I remember my high school German, any noun ending in “-ung” is feminine....die Rechnung; die Wohnung, etc.....

[dfwgator]

That reminds me, I need to brush up on the umlaut.

[BobL]

“Oh boy....the Muslims are not going to like this one bit.”

Naa. They’ll just sit back and eat the popcorn while the Leftists do their dirty work for them, and without charge.

[1Old Pro]

I need to brush up on the umlaut.

Ja, aber vielleicht sollten Sie sich auch auf Chinesisch konzentrieren

[dfwgator]

"You do not work me overtime anymore, you do not take advantage of me on weekends, you have lost all interest in the... umlaut. So obviously, my services are no longer required here."

[aces]

Your right,the only thing they see is execution time

[aces]

yep..and women should rule equally

[minnesota_bound]

HA! I would like to see what happens to a snowflake in Saudi Arabia. He would melt or be hacked to death.

[I want the USA back]

I don’t know any Arabic. I don’t think it’s possible to strip genders out of a language. Genders are a grammatical thing and are not only about chromosome-expressed sex differences.

Latin “nauta” is masculine, but has feminine forms.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, heh, good luck with that. George Orwell:

• If you want to know who rules over you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
• A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
• All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
• Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
• Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
• If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
• That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
• The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
• The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
• The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
• The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
• The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
• There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
• We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

[organicchemist]

If memory serves the word agricola (farmer) is the only masculine noun in the first declension.

[Kevmo]

I look forward to the next step: politically correct version of the Koran where it becomes a toothless “peaceful” religion.

[mrmeyer]

This will not end well.

[DPMD]

He needs to take his Crusade to the muslim countries, because they are so dying to be updated in their religion and language.

[xkaydet65]

Just looked this up

The first thing a textbook will tell you about First Declension Nouns is that they all end in –a. The second thing is that they are nearly all Feminine. The exceptions usually given are the Masculine Nouns poeta poet agricola farmer and nauta sailor (hence the subject of this post). But there are many more than these. Just for fun, here are a few;

agripeta one who strives for the possession of land alipta master of a wresting school athleta athlete conviva a dinner guest coprea a low-class buffoon (I wonder what a high-class buffoon is called) faeniseca a resident of the countryside grammatista a teacher of grammar or languages hippotoxota an archer on horseback lanista owner or trainer in a gladiatorial school pirata a pirate umbraticola a lounger in the shade.

These words are all considered Masculine because in ancient Rome they were considered a man’s domain.

[Verginius Rufus]

Actually, nauta is masculine, even though it is declined like a feminine noun. Likewise for agricola, "farmer." An adjective modifying either of those nouns would take masculine forms.

[Verginius Rufus]

How about Hebrew? Has anyone demanded a gender-neutral version of “bar mitzvah”?

[Hiddigeigei]

"The young girl being neuter in German is the one rule that made sense: all diminutives are neuter. Mãdchen and Frãulein are therefore neuter."
And the German word for woman or wife, Weib (not a diminutive) is also neuter for some reason I can't figure. My father told me German-noun gender has little to do with sexual gender.

[NetAddicted]

I’ve been hollering that gender is grammatical, and equating it with birth sex (as opposed to the act) is purely Newspeak, from Orwell’s 1984. When did people start using gender to refer to anatomical sex?