Authors of the law, which concerns official communications in France, said gender-inclusive language was “an obstacle to comprehension and ease of reading.“
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The French Senate has voted in favour of a proposed law banning gender-inclusive language from official communications in France.
On Monday, Emmanuel Macron urged France not to “not to give in to the tides of time” and reject gender-inclusive writing in order to safeguard the French language.
There’s no need to add dots in the middle of words, or hyphens, or anything else to make it readable," the French President said at the opening of a new language centre in the town of Villers-Cotterêts, near Paris.
The law would ban such language in the workplace, advertising and contracts “whenever the legislation (or regulatory bodies) require a text to be written in French’'.
The French President’s wife, Brigitte Macron and the Académie Française have long railed against what they see as a “barbaric abuse of syntax”.
The ban was proposed by Pascale Gruny, Les Républicains senator for the Aisne department, who refused to use the term “sénatrice”.
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The French Senate has voted in favour of a proposed law banning gender-inclusive language from official communications in France.
On Monday, Emmanuel Macron urged France not to “not to give in to the tides of time” and reject gender-inclusive writing in order to safeguard the French language.
There’s no need to add dots in the middle of words, or hyphens, or anything else to make it readable," the French President said at the opening of a new language centre in the town of Villers-Cotterêts, near Paris.
The law would ban such language in the workplace, advertising and contracts “whenever the legislation (or regulatory bodies) require a text to be written in French’'.
The French President’s wife, Brigitte Macron and the Académie Française have long railed against what they see as a “barbaric abuse of syntax”.
The ban was proposed by Pascale Gruny, Les Républicains senator for the Aisne department, who refused to use the term “sénatrice”.
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