Your Monday Briefing - The New York Times

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It was a “style tip” from the The Associated Press Stylebook that appeared to grasped taste and diplomacy: “We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing ‘the’ labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college educated.”

The French, who noticed they had been placed between the “mentally ill” and the “disabled,” had some things to say approximately it. In a post on Twitter, the French Embassy in the U.S. suggested that it had renamed itself “the Embassy of Frenchness.” (One journalists posited that the French could rebrand as “people experiencing a croque-monsieur.”)

“Certainly, no French diplomat has ever complained that being visited an envoy of ‘the French' was somehow dehumanizing,” our Paris bureau firstly, Roger Cohen, writes. “In fact, the French rather like inhabit stereotyped as the French, if that is the mutter. They undergo Frenchness with considerable relish.”

One Times reader in Paris, in a comment on the article, had another suggestion: “Will somebody luxuriate in interview “Emilie” (in Paris) and find out what she thinks. Then we’ll really know what to make of this.”

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SRC: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/briefing/israel-violence-russian-troops-donbas.html