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Hard time to be non-binary Spanish person (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have only ever seen latinx used by white people being performatively anti-racist. Never seen it from an actual Latin American person.

Now you have, I guess? Some people use Latinx in English and latine or latin@ in Spanish. Most don’t use either and just say Latino in English and Spanish. This whole “only white people do it” (who are never also Latino for some reason?? You can be both) thing isn’t something that makes sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Personally I don't think its a question of ethnicity, but rather of language. Latinx works in English but makes no sense in Spanish

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

It was invented by latinx math nerds on 90s chatrooms. It wasn't designed to be spoken, it was designed to be a math joke.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I mean, why not? There are Spanish words with an x in them that make basically the same sound as in English: extranjero, excelente—and while I’ll give you that those are at the middle of a word rather than the end, there’s even ex (as in ex boyfriend) that can just be used alone.

If you want to say it needs a vowel to make sense in Spanish, sure, throw an e in there for clarity.