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>I don't really see the big issue with Latinx... it seems to me an easy and correct way to refer to latinos and latinas, without saying both, or one or the othe
by kace91 5y ago
>I don't really see the big issue with Latinx... it seems to me an easy and correct way to refer to latinos and latinas, without saying both, or one or the other, or bringing in gender.
Masculine plural is used as gender neutral for Spanish. Latinos already refers to both genders.
Even fringe social groups that disagree with using the masculine for neutral terms (which are already a huge minority, since grammatical gender is everywhere in Spanish and it doesn't imply anything -a chair is female and a wall is make) Ignore the x. They would use the e for neutral (latine), an @ symbol in writing, or just use the long form (Latinos y Latinas).
The x is an American invention that is unknown in the culture it tries to adapt and also not pronounceable in that language.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The x is an American invention that is unknown in the culture it tries to adapt It’s (both “Latinx” and the “-x” to reject the gender binary in Spanish more generally), AFAIK, a Hispanic LGBTQ culture invention, which while originating in the USA, is also used elsewhere (the “-x” ending as an emphatic rejection of the gender binary, not the specific term “Latinx”.) Though its a small minority that use it even in that community. Its adoption as a generic term for the Hispanic community by large institutions, though, is completely out of line with the community preference.
- supakeen 5y agoWe use 'e': latines, etc.
- dragonwriter 5y agoWe who? -e and -@ are both used, sure, but similar studies snd survey to those showing that -x is rarely used in the community show those are even more rare.
- kace91 5y agoNot sure about the culture of Americans with Hispanic heritage, but in actual Spanish countries, at least the ones I have experience with, @ is common (and a bit old), e is somewhat common and x is pretty much unheard of.