A contemporary novelist has been shouted down for writing a text too difficult for the graduate students responsible for interpreting it, the word “peace” evoking similar hostility from high school students who don’t know its meaning. Moliere, help me.
There are many reasons for this refusal. on the one hand, they should be looked for in the pedagogical errors of National Education, which have long been magnetized by current events to the detriment of the main texts. Another observation. For half a century, spoken language has been winning, especially in audiovisual, political and institutional communication, with its tics and other “elements of language” made up of neologisms, euphemisms, anglicisms. And what about modern slang, both digital world and urban slang? As beautiful as they are, they isolate the youngest, the most vulnerable. And that’s why your daughter is no longer mute, but worried about written text…
Source: Le Figaro
