Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb 28, 2024 / 19:19 pm
Argentine President Javier Milei has ordered the prohibition of inclusive language by the national government, the spokesman for office of the president, Manuel Adorni, announced at his daily press conference.
In Spanish, all nouns have a gender, usually designated by the “-o” ending for masculine and the “-a” ending for feminine. In order to make a generically masculine word to cover both sexes, inclusive-language proponents have invented gender-neutral endings.
Adorni explained that steps are to be taken “to prohibit inclusive language and everything related to gender perspective throughout the national public administration” and specified that “the letter ‘e’ the ‘@,’ [and] ‘x’ will not be used along with the unnecessary inclusion of the feminine variation of a word in all public administration documents.”
“The language that covers all sectors is the one we use,” the spokesman continued. “It’s the Castilian language; it’s Spanish.”