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Non-Latinx/Latine people DNI

What is your personal preference?

As someone outside of the community, I personally find “Latine” to make more sense. It fits with the vocalization of “Latino” or “Latina”, and the -e suffix is an established neutral term

Personally, I find “Latinx” to feel very artificially added. Its pronunciation as “lah-tin-ex” or “lah-tinks” seems very anglicized imo, and doesn’t feel like it really fits within the Spanish language

But I thought I’d seek the opinion of people within the community

So please, share your thoughts down below 💜

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Well, you’ve now caught on to the fact that any C/ that shows up in any given feed is open territory, and only mods/admins can decide if a “don’t interact” request has to be honored.

    And, you seem to have discovered that the subject isn’t as limited as the question you asked, because the question was flawed to begin with. You didn’t include the actual, current, formal word in your list. You’re assuming that it’s a done deal. It isn’t, and if you knew any Latino people well enough for this to matter, you’d know it isn’t and wouldn’t be asking.

    You also seem to have found out that your opinion about it being presented after asking anyone that isn’t latino to butt out is tone deaf as hell. Oh, nobody had mentioned that yet?

    Here’s a hard truth. In Spanish, there is a distinction between hombres latino and Latinos (and gods, I hope I got the grammar right on that, if not y’all Spanish speakers that didn’t fail multiple classes please make fun of it while you correct me). For the most part, there is an already present way in formal Spanish to deal with gender neutrality. White folk just don’t like it because they never bother to ask a native speaker how the language works.

    Now, obviously, personal preferences are going to form now that these new versions have come up. But I gotta warn you that if you try and pull the latinx/e shit without knowing the person’s take on it ahead of time, you’re going to look like an idiot.

    Seriously, pack it in homie. You tried, you even likely tried for the right reasons. But you don’t get it.