The academic Spanish faced by ‘sexist language’ – ElEspectador.com

Each time, the discussion about whether you should use expressions such as "all and all" to avoid the ‘sexist language’ gains more prominence, to such an extent that two members of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (RAE) dedicated paths opinion columns in the El pais newspaper on the subject. But in the articles they made signs to went beyond the linguistic debate and went on to the point personal.

The confrontation began with the publication of an article in the novelist and journalist, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, which since 2003 is part of the RAE, entitled "Not always clean, and gives splendor" in the publication XL Weekly. In it he lashes out against members of the Spanish academy who refuse to discuss whether to make a "split gender" so that the language is not exclusive, be a political issue.

In his article, Perez-Reverte ensures in the RAE is "noble people, brave and people that it is not. Academics men and women of the highest level, and also, as in all parties, some silly plum and some talibancita silly of the pepitilla". But it is precisely this expression that the philologist and also a member of the royal academy, Francisco Rico, he said.

The funny thing is that the two scholars of English agree that expressions like "us" are wrong, as it politicized the language. But the attack of Rico was because Perez-Reverte also used.

"Is it the case that the alatristemente famous producer of best-sellers not leave incur your way in "the ridiculous splitting of gender" with reason complaint", said sarcastically Rico in your article of October 14 in the journal The Country called, with equal irony, "academics and scholars". In the face of these accusations, which went beyond the academic sphere, Perez-Reverte wrote, by way of reply, the article "Paco Rico, author of the 'Quixote'".

Any semblance of a dialogue on the proper use of language was relegated to the past. According to the renowned Spanish writer, claims of Rico are not for the politicization of the language, in which the two coincide, but for an adaptation of the novel don Quixote for students in which the two participated.

Perez-Reverte he said that after working in the adaptation of one of the most important works of the Spanish language, "to my astonishment, Paco Rico asked me what was wrong with their copyright. I told him I had not rights to collect by anyone, that it was bringing revenue to the Academy, and he refused."

at The end of their article, also a journalist, he challenged Rich to give more details of that episode briefly explained that: "a Few published novels with more or less fortune, and other shenanigans they leg guards without flushing and piece. But in the case of Paco Rico, in my opinion, that has finished for him to believe that it has a kind of exclusive right, or of intellectual property, on the words Cervantes and don Quixote".

Such assertions allow us to glimpse that, even though the discussion will continue, you could zoom out completely of its initial axis: if, for the sake of inclusion, you can use expressions like "all" or if there are more than transgressions of the language, encouraged by the politically correct.