The irony of the woke war on GCSE French |
Not content to degrade and mangle the English language in their mission to make it conform to their progressive ideology, the forces of hyperliberalism are now seeking to foist changes on languages spoken by people elsewhere.
As revealed in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph, GCSE students are being allowed to use gender-neutral nouns, pronouns and adjectives in their Spanish, German and French lessons. In a move designed to make the curricula more inclusive, pupils in French classes are currently permitted to use the pronouns ‘iel’ or ‘ille’ instead of ‘il’ or ‘elle’, and ‘iels’ to represent an all-encompassing gender-neutral term for ‘ils/elles’.
While students in this tongue are allowed to change ‘amies’, meaning ‘female friends’, to ‘ami.e.s’ or ‘ami*e*s’, those in Spanish classes, who might have otherwise described their parents as ‘padres’, may now call them ‘xadres’ or ‘mapadres’. Students of German, that toughest of foreign tongues, have a new set of pronouns to choose from, including ‘xier’ and ‘xiese’. Pearson Edexcel, the exam board responsible for this fresh guidance for students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, has reportedly introduced the measures with the support of the LGBT charity Stonewall.
That’s languages for you: they’re unreasonable monsters that can never be tamed
That’s languages........