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As a Latino: it's bullshit. I'm willing to accept the changes you do to your English, it's completely fine, your language your rules. Trying to change my langu
by cfcosta 5y ago
As a Latino: it's bullshit. I'm willing to accept the changes you do to your English, it's completely fine, your language your rules.
Trying to change my language is a no-no, in my opinion, and feel dehumanizing, as if my culture isn't "progressive" enough and had to be changed.
- potatoz2 5y agoThe original Latinx idea came from Latino/a non-binary people. The -x suffix is also being pushed in some Latin American countries, like Argentina, by a minority. Also note that Latino is an American English word now, and it makes sense that it'd evolve on its own independent of the original word in Spanish.
- SubiculumCode 5y agoI'd be fine with saying just, "The Latins."
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoSounds reasonable. But wait. What happens if a Latino/Latina does this, since then it would be their language too? Is the claim that everyone pushing Latinx is non-Latin? There are movements afoot in German and French to reduce (long term remove) gender from the language. This isn't just a phenomenon occuring at the conjunction of Spanish and the US.
- selfhoster11 5y ago> Is the claim that everyone pushing Latinx is non-Latin? As far as I can tell, that is exactly what the article claims - that Latinx was invented by and is being pushed by signallers only, and mostly non-Latin ones.
- leephillips 5y agoAs far as I can tell from reading it, that claim is not made in the article [replying to your comment before you edited it].
- selfhoster11 5y agoYup, sorry. Edited for precision.
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- plorkyeran 5y agoSo you're fine with latinx as long as we're writing in English?
- cfcosta 5y agoIt's not an English word, so yeah, kinda. I use "singular they" nowadays, but I'll not speak "gender neutral Portuguese" because English people want me to.