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âHarmfulâ: French education ministry bans gender-inclusive language
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Paris: Franceâs education ministry has banned the use of gender-inclusive words in classrooms, saying they harm learning and risk cementing the status of English as the worldâs dominant language.
The decree sent to schools across the country took specific aim at the practice of introducing full stops into the middle of words to denote both masculine and feminine endings, such as turning âamisâ (friends) into âami.e.sâ - a so-called âmidpointâ.
The use of midpoints to tackle male-dominated French grammar has been called harmful and confusing
9 May 2021 • 5:56pm
French President Emmanuel Macron talks with a pupil while visiting a school in Melun, south of Paris
Credit: Thibault Camus /AP
France’s education ministry has banned the use of gender-inclusive words in classrooms, saying they harm learning and risk cementing the status of English as the world’s dominant language.
The decree sent to schools across the country took specific aim at the practice of introducing full stops into the middle of words to denote both masculine and feminine endings, such as turning “amis” (friends) into “ami.e.s” - a so-called midpoint .
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