don't like Latinx? How about Latine? (1 Viewer)

[GMRfellowtraveller]

let's give this a go on the new board

“Latinx” is growing in popularity. I made a comic to help you understand why.

The gender-neutral term that’s supposed to be for everyone, well, isn’t.

www.vox.com

 

[samiam5211]

Porn engines seem to lump Hispanics in with Latinas. So I've heard.

 

[wardorican]

Yeah, I've noticed the term latinx being used and I had no idea why. Maybe i should ask my cousins on the island. I'm probably too Americanized to be an arbiter for this, but...

Correct me if I'm wrong..... (this will go well) I always took the term Hispanic to mean the various Spaniard/spanish speaking cultures of the Americas... so, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, Colombians, Peruvians, etc. Then I took Latino/Latina to include Hispanics AND those with Portuguese decent, like Brazillians.

Also, the language is feminine and masculine. Not man v woman. They usually go together, but the language is quite gender fluid for non verbs. (Based on my elementary spanish abilities...lol).

I have to read more on the origins of latinX. Only started hearing it on NPR and only on specific podcasts.

 

[BobE]

Porn engines seem to lump Hispanics in with Latinas. So I've heard.

you heard correctly

 

[Archies Ghost]

This silliness only "works" in a language that is does not have grammatical genders. I think it is pretty arrogant to try to impose this stuff on the assumption that all languages follow the pattern of modern English, with gendered pronouns without any other grammatical genderization.

 

[SystemShock]

And one more thing about the article and the use of "E" instead of "A" and "O"...

In Spanish, using "E" at the end of a word is masculine as well.

While "this woman" is "esta mujer", "this man" is not "esto hombre", it is "este hombre".

Any noun which originates from Náhuatl that transforms "tl" to "te", such as tomate (tomatl), elote (elotl), reilete (eletl) etc... is masculine.

Nouns that come from other languages that end in "et" or "eque", such as paquete, mosquete, estanque, embarque, etc... all masculine.

Verbs made into nouns, like desgaste, desquite, etc; all masculine as well.

 

[Thanos]

let's give this a go on the new board

“Latinx” is growing in popularity. I made a comic to help you understand why.

The gender-neutral term that’s supposed to be for everyone, well, isn’t.

www.vox.com

Idk about Latine but Chicken E makes the best tenders