Fox News by Jon Brown
The University of Cambridge in the U.K. has encouraged students to implement “inclusive language” and “to use gender- and non-binary-inclusive language when we address or refer to students and colleagues, both in writing and in speech in English and in German.”
Some took aim at the move, believing the option from course managers for students to choose newer forms with plural German nouns is an attempt to make the gendered language more “woke,” according to The Times of London.
In writing, students can render feminine German nouns gender-neutral by placing an asterisk – or “gender star” – before the suffix.
Instructors also noted “in extended German texts grammatical structures can inhibit inclusivity… relative and other pronouns, for example, are obligatorily marked for grammatical gender, so going gender-free is difficult to achieve.”…
