Tag: linguistic practices
Germans Resist Gender Modifications
On March 6, more
than seventy high-profile Germans, including linguists, teachers, journalists,
lawyers, and writers, published a letter and an accompanying petition that
condemned new linguistic practices which attempt to address implicit gender
connotations in language.
The letter
decried linguistic practices it sees as producing “a wealth of ridiculous
language structures” that “cannot be sustained consistently.”
It was written
in part as a response to the German...