When feminine and masculine collide | Spelling session | Network Chronicles | The gallery

“About words like ‘iel, ielle, froeur’, isn’t that called telescoping? Just like “email” which is the juxtaposition of “mail” and “electronic”, and “chat” which is the fusion of “keyboard” and “chat” [François Robert jr, Québec]? ”; “A question: how do you tune a past participle when” iel “is the subject and the auxiliary used is” to be “? The masculine or the feminine? “He came, she came, he is …” [Jacques Dumont, Québec]? »




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