![]() “Hebrew goes a lot further,” says Erez Levon, a professor of sociolinguistics at Queen Mary University of London who focuses on questions of gender and sexuality. That’s because gender in Hebrew-as in Spanish, Hindi, French and other languages-is intimately woven into word construction. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the first day of the semester, a fly on the wall might hear a college professor ask students to introduce themselves by sharing their names, intended majors and their own preferred gender pronoun identifiers, such as “ze,” “hir,” “hirs,” “they,” “them” and “theirs.” The practice of promoting gender inclusivity is becoming more commonplace on the American college campus, and it’s all part of the evolution of the English language.īut for Hebrew speakers, gender inclusivity is much more complicated.
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