"Many are afraid of inclusive language" | Chronic

In the framework of the round table that inaugurated the second day of the VIIIth International Language Congress (CILE), the writer Luisa Valenzuela he spoke Spanish as a language "hospitable but morose " referring to inclusive language. "Many fear him –he discussed because it threatens male supremacy and perhaps even monotheism itself. "

"Spanish is a hospitable but slow language, in both senses of the word: he is late and he is in debt Said Valenzuela at the beginning of his speech. It's not that the words of migrants are coming in droves, but many are struggling to get a citizenship card. They are busy, undocumented words, but here they must stay ", he added. Valenzuela shared the table under the slogan "Spanish, universal language", with José Luis Moure -President of the Argentine Academy of Letters-, the Mexican Gonzalo Celorio, the British Trevor Dadson and Spanish Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega and Aurora Egido.

"I wonder what the great Argentine writers would think of the raging debates in our language and the invasion of the post-truth, encouraged for example by the lack of official support for free and common education which was the pride of our country ", noted the author of "Cola de lagartija" and "The sarda mask". "These big heads would have been alarmed to know that the poorer the user of the networks, the more likely he was to react emotionally to the false news that already contains a fake letter of citizenship around the world. He continued. And I also wonder what they would have thought of inclusive language, in addition to claiming that it is an Anglicism ".

"The more the network user is uneducated, the more likely he is to react emotionally to the false news"

Valenzuela arrived to do an internship at the origin of the Romance languages, those derived from Latin as Spanish, Italian or French: "We can not say that our Romance languages ​​are roughly chauvinistic, but as María Teresa said" patriarchal ".he badured. "Many would still seem to fear an inclusive language, as it symbolically threatens male supremacy or perhaps even monotheism"he remarked. "In his seminary XX, Lacan determined that the woman did not exist, but that the women constituted a flock, to specify afterwards" because the woman has no more language ". he did not think so then, but there is no doubt that it was, to a large extent.The patriarchal meant our language and we were relegated to the plural that does not understand us "he continued.

"I do not know if we can mitigate the invisibility of women in our language, it is a call that I send to everyone to creativity", Valenzuela highlighted the terms derived from the use of technology that RAE has recently incorporated under the names of "googlear" or "whatsappear": "There is no reason to fear that the SAR is more interested in artificial intelligence than in human genres, it will tell me" everything in its time. "he has ironed. Shortly before the intervention of Valenzuela, the Spanish magistrate and politician Teresa, who devoted herself to illuminating the legal dimension of Spanish and the symbiosis that has always existed between law and language, had also been published on inclusive language: "To change the world, we have to change the language, it's time to start this business", the essayist maintained.