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 ...
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 ...
Languages in which nouns are given male or female status are linked to gender inequality, according to a new study that compares languages and equality across the globe. Surprisingly, though, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do. Linguistic history is dotted with eruptions of pronoun rage. Right now, the provocation is the gender-neutral pronouns ...
Gender is a grammatical category in which a noun, a pronoun, and sometimes an adjective is masculine, feminine or neuter. Genders in English are comparatively simpler since they do not affect all the ...
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 ...