France banned the use and teaching of gender-neutral grammar in schools as part of an effort to push back on social revisionism. The push for gender-neutral words is “harmful to the practice and ...
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Latinx was created as a gender-neutral term, however, the vast majority of people in the U.S. who identify as Latino or Hispanic do not use it. There's debate over whether it's ...
One of the things that French learners struggle with the most is the language's complicated and detailed grammar rules - so we're launching a new series, offering a few tips and tricks to help on your ...
WHAT ARE YOUR pronouns? In English, the most common answers are “he” or “she”. But a growing number of people identify as neither male nor female, and ask to be referred to with novel pronouns. “They” ...
When the United Nations introduced guidelines with gender-inclusive strategies for six major languages, not everyone was keen to jump on the bandwagon. Some felt the changes altered the symmetry of ...
Two instances of vastly different importance remind me about an unresolved contemporary word choice difficulty, namely the conflict between grammatical number and the politics of gender designations ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Language changes, we’re fond of saying. Sometimes it changes before our very eyes, as it has with three ...
PUT in simple words, gender tells us whether a noun or pronoun is male or female. Technically speaking, in grammar, the word ‘gender’ means a class of words in which nouns and pronouns are placed and ...