some pirateArgentina: Milei government on crusade against inclusive language
MataVatnikInclusive language is the dumbest fucking thing anyone tried to do to the Spanish language. For those not familiar, Spanish is a gendered language, words ending in -o are male and words ending in -a are female (not a steadfast rule there are tons of exceptions). “Academics” with too much time want to change words to a gender neutral ending -e. And it sounds so fucking stupid.
As a native Spanish speaker, inclusive sounds a little goofy, but overall seems pretty harmless to me.
I moved to the states at a young age. I really love Spanish, and I especially love the Argentinian version of it. This inclusive language butchers the beauty of it in a lot of ways. I guess when you live there you take it for granted
PolandIsAStateOfMindI guess the same about Polish, this language is incredibly gendered and while the neutral gender does exist, it’s a rump of it because it’s only used for inanimate objects, some animals and small babies, it is also not used at all in 1st person - so the mere usage of neutral form for a person automatically implies lack of agency and is a grave insult (also it become specifically transphobic insult thank to few jerks in the parliament). Language also default to masculine in case of unknown gender . So if a Pole randomly calls anyone “him” in the internet it’s not necessarily misgendering, it’s just how language works while English would default to neutral form.
But even here some efforts has been made.