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Franceâs ministry of education has prohibited the use of gender âinclusiveâ language, asserting that it harms the process of learning the French language.
The education ministry sent out a decree to schools across the Western European nation in an effort to end the use of midpoints, period-like dots that are placed in the middle of words, separating most of the word from its ending, which designates it as either masculine or feminine. The midpoints are used in place of both masculine and feminine endings of words. Academie Francaise, which is also known as the French Academy and is the institution entrusted with preserving the language, has stated that the âgender-inclusiveâ words are âharmful to the practice and understanding of the French language.
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