Question for the Hispanics/Latinos:
I'm not of your ethnicity but I hear a lot about Latinx. Personally, I couldn't give a shit if people don't want to gender their words but why is it Latinx and not just Latin? Is there something in Spanish about the x?
Banter otherwise welcome.
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yeah, it comes from old spanish, it was used by monks to save space when writing books
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Another fucking South America thread Jesus fucking Christ
Is that b8 or true? I literally know nothing of this.
Cope
>latinX
Behold, the shitposter of the future. Capable of producing 20 dogshit pseudo political/racially charged threads a minute
because nouns in spanish end either in a or o depending on the grammatical gender of the noun
"latin" makes no sense in spanish
I get that but where does the x come from, unless Spaniard above got it.
That's what I'm saying too then I realized it's white liberals pushing this. It's out of hands now. White liberals always win. They say jump and non-whites will always always say how high
>I'm not of your ethnicity but I hear a lot about Latinx
Latino isn't a ethnicity.
>why is it Latinx and not just Latin? Is there something in Spanish about the x?
Latin is a english word.
leftist larpers like that letter
see malcom little
It's not latinx, that's a dumb meme made by white americans SJWs who once saw an spic on twitter.
The X was a proto-J before the J was added to Spanish.
No one besides stupid americans use it
So it should be Latinj
Latinx is offensive, stop using it you fucking trannies
Latín is Spanish is just the name of the language of the Romans. Latino/a is the adjective.
If you just dropped the last vowel in adjectives to make them genderless then it would sound horribly unnatural and far from Spanish.
Considering other cases, not just latino/latina/latinx/latin (if your question was exclusively about that word then don't waste your time reading this):
>Gordo/Gorda (Fat)
"Gord" doesn't sound right
>Alto/Alta (Tall)
"Alt"? wtf
>Sucio/Sucia (Dirty)
"Suci" sounds a lil bit better cause it ends in a vowel but it's still shit
That's why the proposal for genderless adjectives is either replacing a/o with an x (written) or with an e (spoken). It doesn't sound bad with the e but it's considered radfem/lgbt+ weirdo stuff and a lot of people look down on it, including me
This proposal exists for 2 different reasons:
-When referring to a group of people, if there's AT LEAST 1 male in the group, any adjective referring to said group must be masculine. Supposedly implying 1 man is more important than any amount of women.
-Gordo/Gorda implies the existence of only 2 genders. So the alphabet people seethe at it and ask for a neutral adjective
he's just joking
i guess that the logic behind comes from the mathematical expression "x", meaning that it refers both to women and men
today feminists end nouns with "e", because it's easier to pronounce than "x"
Imbecile
No u r
I get it. It just seems odd.
Is x pronounced differently in spanish than in english?
It's pronounced the same as far as I'm aware
"ks"
Not an expert on old spanish, but Ñ was made to save space as a ligature of nn.
So is it latinks or latin-eks
latin X-men
I don't understand why that term can't be used in English? Why can't we use the exonym Latin instead of adopting words from other languages
people here say latin-X like it's a new laxative medicine
that thing was created for written language, it's practically unpronounceable
the more practical version of it is ending words with an "e"
latino, latina = latine
something like that
American culture has permeated everywhere. It'll spread to you eventually
It just feels cringey of a word
Trips checked.
So like, Latin-eh? Like Canadians?
just plug it into google translator and hit the listen button
just "latines"
example: youtu.be
Latines sounds better
in english they should just use latin/latins
words in english aren't gendered so they shouldn't have a problem with it
Youd be surprised (or likely wouldn't be) at the RRREEEEs I've gotten at suggesting that, or that the x is unnecessary.