language Notes: President. TRUTH COMMISSION
By: Mauricio Dávila
Alvarado recently, has circulated on the Internet a message seeking ideological arguments to convince us that the noun chair is just a "nonsense feminism, leftist current product that has blown recent times in Latin America, and also makes an analysis simpleton who pretends to be grammatical and nothing but a priori review of standards misquoted.
First, it should be clarified that claims of gender, although have revolutionized the world, are not "left", but have gradually been taking place for over 100 years, directly related to the strengthening of the incursion of women into areas that previously were only for boys. Doctor, psychologist, architect, medical ..., cashier, are words that were not before the female form, and there are some that even scratch until today when we hear our eardrum. But this is only by custom.
But this type of provision should be made from the strictly technical-gramitical. Thus, we can provide that, between words and known as active participles ending in-nte, there are those that are adjectives (singer, who sings) and those that are substantive (singer, who sang for the profession). The active participle of the verb attack is attacker, the suffering is suffering and chair, president.
Then, like all Latin present participle, the word president was at first only an adjective, which served to express the quality of the subject but, over time, became a noun, ie the subject itself. Thus, the noun, that is, to become a subject, there is the possibility that given the morphological characteristic of the genre itself, which is usually the change the last letter, but the change is not always to our liking (think "singer"!).
The evolution of language, languages \u200b\u200band languages \u200b\u200bmakes include or exclude terms that are invented words or mutate, and these issues do not arise from the law itself nor the mere grammatical analysis, but the practices and customs of the people. And the Royal English Academy which, taking into account the uses and needs of English speakers, which included the word chairman of its Dictionary ... through grammatical analysis and social and without having recourse to ideological arguments.
And it should be clear that which is not the English Royal Academy is to be leftist.
In conclusion, the word itself president is correct and is also included in the dictionary of the Royal English Academy (DRAE), which, in its twenty-second edition 2001, says president
. F. Woman president. rather than ideological passions. This has nothing to do with splits "artificial and unnecessary from the point of view of language" as the citation of "children" or "citizens", who so contribute little to the discourse and can be overcome by the use generic masculine.
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