Tag: gender-appropriate language
Council for German spelling advises on gender – Panorama
Colon, underscore and asterisk in the word: Controversial debates about gender are constantly being held. The Council for German Spelling is advising on gender-sensitive writing this Friday in Eupen, Belgium…
Söder derbleckt Aiwanger: "Otherwise he’ll do another demo in Erding"
At the “Bavaricum Symposium” in Munich’s Augustinerkeller, the speakers made fun of the Greens and the “Bionade bourgeoisie” – and Prime Minister Markus Söder blew his deputy Hubert Aiwanger. What…
Gender language: how the generic feminine makes German fair – Kultur
Guest contribution by Jayrôme C. Robinet The new Governing Mayor of Berlin Kai Wegner has spoken out against gendering in the administrative language. This leads to the well-known criticism of…
CSU in Bavaria: More protest than a program party – Bavaria
After the botched state elections in 2018, the CSU vowed never again to strike the tone of the AfD. It sounds softer on migration, but when it comes to the…
Do it: Boris Palmer and the question: “What else can one say? – Culture
Most recently, it was again the Mayor of Tübingen, Boris Palmer, who used the word five times in less than a minute. At a Frankfurt conference, Palmer was therefore insulted…
Cognitive Sciences: Psychology of Cleavage
It is not the search for truth that drives people, but the need to belong. Social polarization is thus inevitable. What helps? source site
Genders and gender language: Do they reflect the relationships? – Culture
The argument about gender language may be raging because the language is changing – but not the circumstances in which it is spoken. From Hilmar Klute Ah, the gender language:…
My buddy the chatbot – Knowledge
One day, the devices began to talk and address the word to the people. The Bluetooth box, for example, which always announces the status of the battery level in a…
Why men should accept limitations – but women shouldn’t – Knowledge
Men secretly cry, Grönemeyer, Herbert once sang. That may be the case, and it will probably remain so for one simple reason: if men publicly complain that they have it…
Bavaria: Disputed AfD faction concludes “Burgfrieden” – Bavaria
At the beginning of the election year, the quarreling AfD faction is trying to unite itself: Unlike previous retreats, the MPs adopted a position paper at their winter retreat, in…