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Why Francophone Non-Binary Individuals Hate French Voices 

Why Francophone Non-Binary Individuals Hate French

“Faced with the aberration of ‘inclusive writing’, the French language finds itself in mortal danger,” condemned a statement written by L’Académie de la langue française.    The “inclusive language” they were referring to was writing “directeur(trice)s” rather than “directeurs” in the case of a gender-mixed board of directors, since the masculine form always takes precedence over the feminine form, even when there is only 1 man among 50 women.     If you ever wondered why this grammar rule exists in French, it is because, in 1647, the grammarian Claude Favre…

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