Hipster "multiculturalism"
At my Italian class, one student, a thirty-something hipster with scraggly beard, skinny arms, and nervous hands, was corrected by the instructor: a woman author is a "scrittrice," not a "scrittore."
In response, he rolled his eyes and mumbled something about how sexist this all was.
Entire languages are subject to condemnation if they do not live up to the standards of the twenty-first century Brooklyn hipster!
(Interestingly, the same fellow often corrects the instructor on basic language points, e.g., "That's not reflexive!" in a case where Italian uses a reflexive verb but English doesn't. Even the logical structure of the language is not up to snuff in his eyes.)
In response, he rolled his eyes and mumbled something about how sexist this all was.
Entire languages are subject to condemnation if they do not live up to the standards of the twenty-first century Brooklyn hipster!
(Interestingly, the same fellow often corrects the instructor on basic language points, e.g., "That's not reflexive!" in a case where Italian uses a reflexive verb but English doesn't. Even the logical structure of the language is not up to snuff in his eyes.)
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