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A year ago she attacked France’s dictionary Le Petit Robert for including the gender-neutral pronoun ‘iel’ as a substitute for either ‘il’ or ‘elle’.
After her intervention it became clear that matters had become worse, with ‘iel’ becoming the ‘formal’ version of ‘ol’, ‘yul’ and ‘ul’.
From the Connexion (Simon Heffer) :
How are children learning to read and write expected to cope with this claptrap ?Thus, whereas I might once have wished to address each of you as ‘cher lecteur’, were I under the woke tyranny I should have to use the form ‘cher.e.s lecteur.rice.s’, thereby seeking to include both existing forms and supposedly neutralising them by making them plural.
In the full article, Simon Heffer discusses the stupidity of this OTT PC attitude and his agreement with Brigitte Macron's opinion :
https://www.connexionfrance.com/article ... -358054845
