A bill to prohibit the use of inclusive language in the State and throughout the Buenos Aires educational system was presented in the Legislature of the province of Buenos Aires.
The initiative of the deputies Guillermo Castello (Avanza Libertad) and Matías Ranzini (Together for Change) was presented in the Lower House of Buenos Aires after the government of the city of Buenos Aires announced the ban of inclusive language at all levels of public and private schools in Buenos Aires.
legislators They also intend to suppress the use of expressions that include the “e”, the “x” or the “@” also in State documents.
In the foundations of the proposal they explained that it is intended “to avoid linguistic distortions or deformations that conspire against the adequate understanding of what is to be communicated, as well as to avoid expressions that are expressions that are verbally unpronounceable.”
The deputies considered that the prohibition is necessary “in the educational fieldbecause a deformation of the language can conspire against the correct development of reading and writing skills”.
Castello is referenced in the national deputy José Luis Espert, while Ranzini militates in the PRO within the space of Cristian Ritondo.
Both considered that the use of inclusive language represents “a clearly minority position in society, that in no way can be recognized as a spontaneous evolution of language” and they maintained that “the official language must facilitate the publicity of government acts.
