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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Job profiles in inclusive writing: the administration backtracks

The period of Le Mars sees a proliferation of job advertisements for recruitment in higher education establishments of which the INSPE are now part in complete autonomy. The word "autonomy" is undoubtedly inappropriate when talking about the civil service, as some believe themselves to be freed by the performative magic of the word from any accountability to the public that finances them. Through our unprecedented mobilization, we have managed to force the administration to back down!

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Jacques-Robert

The Autumn of Poets

Who is really right-wing: those who defend the working classes handicapped by exclusionary writing, or those who attack a writer presumed to be right-wing while promoting writing that excludes the poor?

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Nathalie Heinich

In the face of the culture of censorship, institutions must resist

The conference on inclusive writing at Espace Mendès France was disrupted by agitators, requiring police intervention. Despite this, the director resisted pressure to cancel the event, highlighting the paradox where public institutions have sometimes given in to similar pressures, illustrating a democratic concern.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

"Francocide" and French words ending in "-icide": the semantic causes of a predicted failure

Language and linguistic forms are a playground for all the ideologies that meet at a time when wokeism claims to shape the world through speech. But the flaw of neology at all costs is a major political fact. The failure of the proposal of the word "francocide" is an illustration of the liveliness of language that has nothing to do with the political will to shape it or to recover it, and just as the failure of inclusive writing will be explained by the resistance of speaking subjects to the imposition of standards that are not understood, so the reactivation of cultivated etymological forms is understood by the mechanics specific to the history not of words, but of language itself. And in this area, the University has things to say.

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Collective

One reform can hide another: what writing means...

Sometimes, when I read a text, to better assess its interest, I imagine myself discussing with its author on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens. This morning, I was sitting next to the author of the column in Le Monde entitled "Why it is urgent to update our spelling". Here is an excerpt from our discussion.

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Patrick Moreau

Inclusive writing: a strange authoritarianism

Until recently, inclusive writing was still just a new form of activist writing, cultivated in a few feminist or progressive circles. Since then, it has taken root in many institutions, including the federal administration, universities and CEGEPs, thereby changing its nature.

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Jacques-Robert

Hide this word that I cannot see!

Tribalism? How awful! The editor, Samir Shah, made amends in April 2021 for allowing this article to be published, which he retracted and republished under a different title! And the new article replaced tribalism with silo

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