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Not to humblebrag but I’m not online enough to know the details of the likely struggle sessions that have already occurred relating to this (Hexbear or elsewhere)

I’m reading Racial Formation in the United States, and it makes frequent use of latin@. But to me it just seems really awkward/forced.

Just use latine? Or, if one insists on using a combo letter, maybe at least something like the Swedish å? Or instead of trying to change the language, just divorce any correlation between human gender and word gender by selecting either latino or latina to refer to all people.

I only have a basic American level ability to speak Spanish so if there are Spanish speakers here with better insight, lemme hear the roasts

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[–] ScienceBear@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Latine gang rise up.

X or @ feel like corporate branding.

Latine feels more like a natural progression of how the language is already structured.

That being said, I'd estimate a good chunk of the hispanic/latin-american population over 30 aren't even aware that people were trying to make X/@ a thing except for memes about how they hate X/@.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm told Latinx was originated by trans women in Bazil but idk if that's true. It certainly seems like it never caught on anywhere.