RAE's answer to a question about the "genus" of viral brown

The Royal Spanish Academy has again generated interest with its answers to questions from the public via Twitter.

The RAE decided some time ago to fight the language dispute in the area where its criteria are the most contested: social networks. From your Twitter account, answer the most unusual questions from users in different Spanish-speaking countries.

A young woman who introduces herself as Betibú in her report Wednesday expressed concern about the "gender" of brown. And the caustic response of RAE has had a lot of repercussions.

"Hello @RAEinforma, I have a dilemma.Today, talking about my worst is nothing @JPG_Music I realized that I can say that a strap is black, but not that she is brown. Because "Are we discriminating against brownies? Thank you for your attention," wrote the user.

"There are adjectives of two endings, such as" red, -ja "," yellow, -lla "or" listo, -ta ", and others of a single ending, valid for the masculine and the feminine, like "brown" "Blue" or "imbecile" ", responded to the official report of the Academy, with a choice of curious examples.

The answer was celebrated by many Internet users, annoyed by a question they deemed unnecessary. Memories and congratulatory messages abounded in the intelligent way of answering.

The truth is that the RAE put an end to inclusive language last November by presenting a new style manual focused on digital communication. In the first chapter of the publication, he maintains his position of rejecting the type of expressions such as "todxs", "todes" or "tod @ s" as "useless".

The Academy argues that masculine words "may include the feminine in certain contexts". Therefore, it does not accept duplicates, such as "Latinos and Latinas".

In the section "Grammatical Questions", he states that "the masculine, because it is not marked, can include the feminine in certain contexts." There is no reason to think that the male gender excludes women in such situations. "

"No need to force to duplicate, we do not talk like that," said Víctor García de la Concha, honorary director of RAE.

(Infobae)