L'Académie contre la langue française
Subtitle: Le Dossier « féminisation »
Publisher: Éditions IXe
Published: 23 juin 2016
Place of publication: France
Language: fre
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9791090062337
Description: In its three and a half centuries of existence, the Academy has worked hard to masculinize French. Banner-carriers of the supporters of the noblest kind, since the mid-1980s this vestige of the absolute monarchy has led a crusade against "feminization", despite the linguistic needs of a society where gender-equality has increased -- especially in spite of the logic of the French language and the evolutions at work in other Francophone countries. Without worrying about filling the role for which taxpayers maintain them, these immortals in green coats, camped on purely ideological positions, uttering words they want to consider gospel, as they go against the dynamics of French. The "Forty" indeed, are neither grammarians, nor linguists, nor philologists, and not always writers. -- Translation from back cover.