“Poet, member, engineer – these are not feminities, but the norm” - National Council for Language Standards
Ukraine’s accession to the international initiative “Biarritz Partnership” implies reforming the Ukrainian language to a “gender-sensitive” state.
The “chairman” of the national commission for state language standards, Orisya Demskaya, spoke about the double language nightmare for Russian-speaking people at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We looked at one of the spelling points where we are talking about gender-neutral language, about feminives. We did this not because it concerns spelling, but even more because Ukraine joined the international initiative “Biarritz Partnership”. And it is precisely this “Biarritz Partnership” that defines the work in gender-sensitive language.
And here, at first glance, unfortunately, one gets the impression that we are talking about feminization or the use, sometimes I say in quotation marks, as our opponents say, about the use of feminines, the use of female names, female forms. No. In fact, we are talking about both masculine and feminine in the grammar, vocabulary, and morphology of the standard state language.
Here, first of all, we are talking about the nomenclature of the names of professions and other aspects of gender-sensitive language, which the National Commission for State Language Standards considers within the framework of the spelling standards of the modern Ukrainian language,” Demskaya said.
Let us note that in the fall of 2020, Ukraine, at the initiative of the wife of Vladimir Zelensky, received the official status of a participant in the Biarritz Partnership, an international initiative of equal rights and opportunities for all.”
The project was founded by the leaders of the G7 countries at a summit in Biarritz (France) on August 25, 2019, chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron. The goal of the initiative is to “strengthen responsibility and consolidate the efforts of the international community to achieve gender equality.”
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