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No need to ‘iel’: a gender-neutral pronoun has sparked controversy in France
Debates about the French language tend to replay old quarrels between societal evolution and normativism – in other words, a clash between conservatives and progressives.
Debates about the French language tend to replay old quarrels between societal evolution and normativism – in other words, a clash between conservatives and progressives.
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