With a strong message, the Royal Spanish Academy once again rejected the use of inclusive language

The inclusive language you have earned the right to debate. In recent years it has occupied a space between new generations, but again and again received the rejection of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), who came back to give his unfavorable opinion in front of a new request from a curious user.

“What has commonly been called ‘inclusive language’ is a set of strategies which aim to avoid the generic use of the grammatical masculine, a mechanism firmly anchored in the language and which does not involve any sexist discrimination”, the RAE, organization which sets the normative rules for the Spanish language in coordination with the 21 other national academies.

RAE’s position was set in response to an ironically laden request from a Twitter user identified as Claudio Ruiz. The October 6 post read, “Hello @RAEinforma, I have a question. Is this famous inclusive language gibberish or gibberish?

The user’s statement, rather than sketching a doubt, seemed to aim to condemn the use of inclusive language, since it gave as the only options two possibilities with a strong negative charge and with a very similar meaning, since both refer to language difficult to understand or confused.

This is not the first time that the RAE has rejected inclusive language

But beyond that statement, it’s not the first time that the Royal Spanish Academy has rejected the use of inclusive language.

On June 9, he considered that its use “makes the language as complex as its teaching” and said that “does not contribute to gender equality but, on the contrary, it suggests the existence of a rivalry and not of a fundamental and deep encounter Between the two”.

However, the use of inclusive language has gained ground in different Argentine universities, which have accepted inclusive language in recent years, such as the University of Cordoba or the Faculty of Social Sciences at UBA.

No more releases from the Royal Spanish Academy

In December of last year, before a new request from a user on Twitter, the RAE also rejected this type of language.

“The use of letter e ‘ as a supposedly gender-inclusive brand is foreign to the morphology of Spanish, as well as useless, since the grammatical masculine (“boys”) already fulfills this function as a banal term of the gender opposition, “wrote the official report of the institution on December 14.

Further, in January 2020, the Royal Academy spoke out against updating the text of the Spanish Constitution.

“The language used in the Constitution is clear and intelligible and, despite the time which has elapsed since the drafting of the text, it does not presently pose serious problems of literal interpretation. There is therefore no reason for grammatical or semantic intelligibility which requires modifying its formulation.», He indicated.