Linguist Lann Hornscheidt wants to establish a new form of gender. Instead of the “gender gap”, the ending “ens” should refer to the gender language.
Berlin – The current gender debate keeps the media discourse nationwide on the go. But the discussion about the concrete addressing of all genders does not only produce supporters of linguistic change. While Hamburg’s Second Mayor Kathatrina Fegebank demands gender language in Hamburg’s authorities *, Hamburg’s CDU leader Christoph Ploß would rather ban gender-appropriate language today than tomorrow *. Now the linguist Lann Hornscheidt speaks up and makes a suggestion that at first glance seems absurd and bizarre. In the topics of the day he suggests expressing gender language with the ending “-ens” *.
In gender-sensitive language, the spelling with an asterisk has prevailed so far. Buyers become buyers. This makes it clear that not only the male gender is addressed. But the former gender studies professor at Berlin’s Humboldt University is now going one step further. Instead of the previous variant, he would like to fall back on a completely different form in the future. In a daily topic contribution, he now calls for the gender language to be clarified with the word ending “-ens”. But what is the purpose of the seemingly absurd linguistic creation? * 24hamburg.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
