France bans schools from teaching 'gender neutral' words with full stops in the middle because they are 'a threat to the language'

Daily mail ^ | 5-13-21 | CHRIS PLEASANCE

[PallMal]

Add to that, France is traditionally protective of their language and are fearful of French slowly dying out.

I recall that some time ago, the French officials were trying to discourage the usage of English terms that already had a French counterpart, seeing that younger French persons gravitated to the easier-to-remember-and-say English terms than the French terms.

[Chicory]

Seems like linguistic colonialism to me!

[vikingd00d]

>>Whatever else you may think of the French, they do take their language very seriously.

Those French... it’s like they have a different word for everything.

[VanShuyten]

“What’s wrong with calling them Latinas or Latinos?”

Those are Spanish language terms. English has a perfectly good word, Latin-American, which could be shortened to the non-gender “Latin”, I suppose.

[alexander_busek]

For those who don’t speak British English, “full stops” are what we call periods.

Having a British wife, who is completely unapproachable during a "certain time of the month," I can certainly vouch for that: A "period" does indeed bring everything to a "full stop."

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

The German language has already gone "full 'tard" in that respect.

Even totally "harmless" words like "Mitglied" (= "member of an organization"), which is NEUTRAL ("DAS Mitglied") and which has the plural ending "-er" (which looks masculine) gets a feminine ending tacked onto it nowadays - though only (paradoxically) in the plural.

So "die Mitglieder" (= "the members") becomes "die Mitglieder*nnen" (= "the members"), but a female member would still be referred to as "das Mitglied," and not as "die Mitgliedin").

Ridiculous!

Regards,