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Originally Posted by Catfish
^ which is of course idiotic. In lower saxony, you have to write your degree dissertation gender-correct, otherwise it will not be accepted or marked as unsatisfactory/fail. If you read this you are almost unable to understand the text between those absurd word creations.. maybe call all people "it", or "es" in german 
Imho they try to make up for centuries of suppression and wrongdoing, but this way is idiotic. Changing the language and words certainly changes the thinking..
It is like tearing down all monuments to make the past look better - placing some monuments in museums with a proper explanation would maybe be a solution. Or apply some enlightening texts on those statues. Removing this entirely has nothing to do with coming to terms with some ugly past.
Truth be told Gervais also says that “If you’re mildly left-wing on Twitter you’re suddenly Trotsky."
As usual the truth or best way is to remain calm and do not let you being intrumenalized by certain media who try to help their side by dividing the people  |
The structure and temrinology of langauge defines the limits and ways if the way we think. Thats why a perosn form one culture may find another person from a very different culture so un comprhensible or stnrage, if he has no own knodlge of th eotherÄS language. Very good exmaple is that difference between Western languages, and Chinese.
Orwell'S 1984 includes this simple truth about the relation between langauge and thinking, too. Its the reason why language gets systematically reduced and annihlated in the novel.
The link is even in the neural hard-wiring. Well - of course it is. It must be.
Similiar links are between thinking, and handwriting. Or thinking and tactile feedback in general, for that matter. Pupils not learning to handwrite at schools - as some "pedagogues" propose - but just typing on digital keyboards, causes havoc.