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The kicker for me is if we want to anglicize Spanish because we know better than them... we could just say Latin! It's already a word! But it doesn't come wit
by woooooo 4y ago
The kicker for me is if we want to anglicize Spanish because we know better than them... we could just say Latin! It's already a word! But it doesn't come with ingroup signaling and so here we are..
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoRight?! Kublai was on this train 700 years ago: https://youtu.be/FJUueJzLr54?t=169 https://youtu.be/FJUueJzLr54?t=169
- el-salvador 4y agoWhen you read Latinx in Spanish it reads as "Latín Equis". "Equis" is a word we use when talking about something or someone irrelevant. Like the x in an algebra formula. https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=equis https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=equ...
- soundnote 4y agoWait, what does that mean wrt the Dos Equis beer then? Is the most interesting man in the world actually irrelevant?
- hedora 4y agoI think you meant most interesting person in the world. Geez.
- el-salvador 4y agoTIL The beer was first named Siglo XX which stands for 20th century. The name Dos Equis later came about from the roman numeral for twenty, which is XX.
- School-Cotton 4y agoIn my understanding “Latin” also includes people from Latin Europe, (France, Italy, Spain, etc.), so it’s a bit less precise.