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>who are latin@ Is that a real thing or are you joking?

by kbelder 2y ago

Tyr42 2y ago
It's got the O around the a, it's super cute for typing and impossible to say.
- ternnoburn 2y ago
  Latinao is the pronunciation I've heard.
1-more 2y ago
it's older than latinx
Diti 2y ago
Considering the comment history of the person you are talking to (basically only ever replies to fight over social justice), I think they must be mentioning a real trend.
- zahlman 2y ago
  The Wikipedia article is surprisingly on-point and insightful for a contemporary culture-war concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx
ternnoburn 2y ago
I'm answering in good faith, assuming the question is in good faith. Latin@ (or latine or latinao) are all attempts to add non gendered versions of gendered words in Spanish. Some percentage of the population, probably in the tenths of a percentage point, identify as non binary. Those people prefer to use non gendered indicators where possible. That's ... kinda possible in English, where you can use they/them or replace father with parent, for instance. In Romance languages this is much more difficult because adjectives are supposed to agree with the gender of the person -- for instance roja is red, feminine, and rojo is red, masculine. So, there is a genuine movement by people who are non binary to try out different things. Combining the an and o, for instance, to get rojao, or roj@. Or using a third vowel to indicate gender neutrality, e.g. roje. It's extremely important, imo, to differentiate this from Latinx. Latinx is an American English construct, latin@ is a Spanish language construct. Latinx is an almost exclusively American (and therefore largely exogenous concept to Spanish speakers), whereas latine is a Chilean/Argentinian construction that is endogenous. Hope this comment is helpful, I'd ask that people vote on it based on whether they felt I made a good faith effort to factually answer this person's question, even if they dislike the idea of gender neutral Romance languages.

>who are latin@ Is that a real thing or are you joking?

Tyr42 2y ago

It's got the O around the a, it's super cute for typing and impossible to say.

ternnoburn 2y ago
Latinao is the pronunciation I've heard.

1-more 2y ago

it's older than latinx

Diti 2y ago

Considering the comment history of the person you are talking to (basically only ever replies to fight over social justice), I think they must be mentioning a real trend.

zahlman 2y ago
The Wikipedia article is surprisingly on-point and insightful for a contemporary culture-war concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx

ternnoburn 2y ago

I'm answering in good faith, assuming the question is in good faith. Latin@ (or latine or latinao) are all attempts to add non gendered versions of gendered words in Spanish. Some percentage of the population, probably in the tenths of a percentage point, identify as non binary. Those people prefer to use non gendered indicators where possible. That's ... kinda possible in English, where you can use they/them or replace father with parent, for instance. In Romance languages this is much more difficult because adjectives are supposed to agree with the gender of the person -- for instance roja is red, feminine, and rojo is red, masculine. So, there is a genuine movement by people who are non binary to try out different things. Combining the an and o, for instance, to get rojao, or roj@. Or using a third vowel to indicate gender neutrality, e.g. roje. It's extremely important, imo, to differentiate this from Latinx. Latinx is an American English construct, latin@ is a Spanish language construct. Latinx is an almost exclusively American (and therefore largely exogenous concept to Spanish speakers), whereas latine is a Chilean/Argentinian construction that is endogenous. Hope this comment is helpful, I'd ask that people vote on it based on whether they felt I made a good faith effort to factually answer this person's question, even if they dislike the idea of gender neutral Romance languages.