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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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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

latine is used officially by the cuban and argentinian governments at least, seems to have struck a stronger chord in people that speak spanish

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

latine

Is it pronouced lah-teen or lah-tee-ney? I've never heard anyone say it

[–] xj9@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

in spanish, you pronounce every letter. la-teen-eh, for the anglophones.

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Spanish doesn't have silent letters and all vowels are consistently the same.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure its second one