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Gringxs at it again.
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Everybody MUST see this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/asklatinxmerica/comments/ncigto/how_can_we_modernize_the_spanish_language/?sort=controversial
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That post is copy pasta. I've seen it a few times. It works so well every time too.
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If that's the case, I'm fairly certain this is the original
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White literal child or rdrama r-slur? This is the question you should always ask yourselves when you see this language colonialism.
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I could not believe it wasn't a dramatard until I looked through the years of post history on that account on linguistics and white people nonsense.
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Every single time the reaction is universally negative and yet they insist on doing this shit. Unironically what's wrong with them? Are they just convinced it's the heckin' alt right goberglopf trollers or what?
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Itβs not about the minorities, dummy. Itβs about the white people making decisions, they know what the BIPOC bodies need!
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lol imagine caring what the non-whites think
they don't know what's good for them, we need to teach them and take on the White Woman's Burden
https://classicreload.com/win3x-skifree.html
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Gringx culture is about posturing to other smug gringxs to show you're not like the lower-class gringxs. Respect gringx heritage.
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Pop music, burgers and fries, occasionally baguettes, tea or schnitzels
Not to mention foidposting on social media and sometimes pretending to be black
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That book was pretty funny. It was making fun of hipsters and Portland types. Idk why I've read it
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It's the
White People's BurdenWoke Persons Burden, they simply know better because they've wokeThe time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko
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Imagine you were a corporation and wanted to cash in on Mexican month. Now you're in a pickle, because if you call them Latin0s you piss off woke whites, but if you call them Latinx you piss of hard-working Americans. You want to make as much money as possible, what do you do?
Please solve and show proof.
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Latine
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It's down the hall, to the left. Remember to flush.
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The opinion of the minorities they're supposedly pandering to is literally irrelevant
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Its sneaky colonization unironically.
Can't openly tell them white it right so instead you say oh you poor baby you have it bad ots everybody else's fault lemme show you the way baby.
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As a true and honest drama appreciator Iβve decided to embrace the term since itβs makes latinxs seethe every time
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It kinda makes me seethe, so you may be onto something.
Gringxs saying Latinx
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I fricking hate the term, but respect the hustle.
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Based and not listening to tacos pilled
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This man knows what he's talking about
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I unironically seethe at latinx, gringos hijos de perra maricones
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This reminds me of the gender neutralization hustle in other Romance languages. The Académie Française basically puts down any attempt at it and the Québécois equivalent does the same and generates massive seethe from the small number of activists. One of the Francophone cantons in Switzerland did pass some gender neutral law but it basically did nothing because of France being right next door and it annoyed a lot of people so it got removed iirc.
Iβm glad everyday that English doesnβt have grammatical genders. Never even began for Romancels.
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False. The lack of grammatical genders is precisely the reason why all this bullshit took off among the Anglos. If it's literally impossible to say any sentence in first person without giving away your gender, there is never any question of internet misgendering, and any "gradualist" attempts to bring in stupid shit like "xir" will fundamentally be non-starters.
Just look at the results - all the languages with grammatical genders look at English in astonishment and bewilderment. Who did it never even begin for, huh?
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Genderedcels, not even a question.
Gender neutralizers are not motivated by misgendering though. Their premise is that since the neutral gender is rarely used and/or is exactly the same as masculine gender, then equality between the sexes is impossible. If misgendering was a problem to begin with, there would be a movement to add gendered language to English. Also Turkish, Finnish, Hungarian, Farsi, etc. speakers donβt have grammatical genders and are completely fine.
Of course, gendered neutralization is stupid and is done by a minority of the population. Anglophone activists donβt see why itβs stupid and support their efforts but they little influence among a non-Anglophone population, and in the areas where they can affect it is usually lazy and only affects the word Latinx (rdrama auto corrects the β-oβ to an β-xβ).
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But that's my point. It's basically impossible to make a language that retained its hyper-gendered nature (nearly all Indo-European ones did) without creating a truly massive project out of it requiring the support of the majority of the population. It's not just Spanish - any Slavic language has three grammatical genders, and nobody will ask to be referred to in a gender neutral way simply because the speakers of the language will gladly oblige and start referring to the person requesting as "it" in all the myriad of forms these languages possess, while laughing manically on the inside. Anglos just have neopronouns that they argue about, and thus the "modernisers" can semi-legitimately say that it's not a big deal to just say "xir".
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And even "xir" in English has faint traces of the fricking failed Esperanto project, that teenagers who read Wikipedia know is not how language works/evolves, organically. Fricking heck. It's on sight, with some of these motherlovers.
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Apparently there are some hundred kids or so whoβs native language is Esperanto. They literally have to learn another language in order to communicate with another person.
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One of their native languages is esperanto. They always have a second native language, because the parents can't be bothered to speak esperanto around them 100% of the time.
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You underestimate the r-slurness of Esperanto speakers.
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Don't underestimate the heckin enby cuties, I've seen some Czechs shove x in their gendered words to make them neutral and as you can imagine, it was incredibly grating, but they tried nonetheless.
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They can shove whatever the frick they want in their speech - that part doesn't bother me that much. People butcher their language regardless of where they're from. The thing is that these heckin' valid enbies in Czechia will definitely not ask anyone around them to use gender-neutral language in reference to them, because, as I said, chances are that others will gladly comply (they do so behind their backs anyway). I'm not great at Czech, so I'll give you a (fairly closely related) Polish example (which is a language I actually know pretty well):
"I tutaj ono przyszΕo, ubrane w zielone, namalowane na caΕej twarzy wszelakim gΓ³wnem". Not pretty. Not at all. Hence a non-starter.
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Ooohh lemme try lemme try. Did you say:
"And here it came, dressed in green, painted upon its full face with all feces?"
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Yeah, but it doesn't hit quite the same in English, without the neuter forms, does it?
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Yup!
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But thatβs not what gender neutralization is. The neutralizers donβt want job titles or plural nouns to be masculine by default. Slavic languages have this same problem too despite the third neutral gender because the latter is not normally used in stuff like job titles or word endings. Itβs an issue of βfemale representationβ and βgender equalityβ not something about non-binaries. This is an example of what they want most gender neutralizers want and here is the Wiki article that came with it explaining what they want. Theyβre all completely fricking r-slurred though (the subject matter, the Wiki articles, the sources, the editors, the βissueβ,
Wikipedia,etc.) but thatβs what they want.In English, gender neutralizers donβt have ground to stand on (neither do the other languages but
) because most of the βissuesβ in other languages are not present. Gender neutralizers in say Spanish, German or (including) Russian would want to grammatically restructure their entire language and stamp out dialectal and/or colloquial varieties. The neo-pronouns are a completely different group and βissueβ.
Farsi is Indo-European btw.
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Okay, I've read the section on Russian, because I can understand that one, and I can confidently tell you that nobody I've ever met wanted any of that, male or female, gay or straight, or any other group. My guess is that it was in fact written by some burger in a Slavic Studies department of some uni.
In English, they can (quite truthfully) say that they aren't asking for much. Because they aren't. Referring to someone by a neopronoun is weird, but not a particularly big deal. In Slavic languages you would have to change everything, to the point that even enbies themselves would probably be making mistakes even if they honestly tried. It's a colossal project that absolutely nobody will ever take on and nobody would consider "reasonable". That's my point, English is kind of on its own here out of all the languages in places where wokies exist.
Well, I did say "almost". Also - Farsi/Dari/Tajik isn't influenced by wokies in the slightest (for obvious reasons), so for the time being - it's kind of irrelevant to the conversation.
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I know but thatβs what gender neutralization would like according to neutralizers, irregardless how unpopular it would be.
As if reasonability and pragmatism would stop wokie r-slurs lol.
Anyways, English neo-pronouns are not really part of these discussions, usually it just centers around the use and historicity of the singular they. Most of the βxirβ talk is associated with new genders and the validity of adding a completely new set of pronouns will be hyper focused on the validity of new genders to begin with.
At least we can rest easy though that Anglophone wokie insanity is heavily restrained by the English language, giving non-Anglophones a semi-immune barrier.
Average Persian male.
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Bah, I'm sure quebecers will cave within a few years.
For all the nationalist cope and seethe we are nothing but north americans
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I donβt think they will. Quebecois, Acadians, Brayons, MΓ©tis, etc. If thereβs one universal trend that never stops is that if theyβre Francophone, they will never stop being annoying.
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You think we are annoying to anglos, that's nothing on intra-franco squabbling heh
We've inherited the complainy gene from frogs and the apathetic gene from bongs, truly a terrible heritage
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βJe me souviensβ
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The only people who spell it "Latinx" is white people. lol US white people to be more specific.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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But muh state side monolingual Puerto Rican activists made up the term in a yt university so itβs therefore valid and representative.
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Puerto Ricans are by far the worst part of Latin America. I've met a lot of PRs in the army, and to a man, they're all lazy, shamming dumbasses who argue about everything and can't perform simple tasks.
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They can shoot up Congress to a point though.
βMuh/mio Puerto Rico is a colony, look how they brutally put down the independent movement!β *with said movement always being minor or gradualist and violent βdemonstrationβ being put down by other Puerto Ricans themselves*
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Any Puerto Rican than can rub two brain cells together doesn't want to be independent because without US support they'd end up like the rest of the shithole Caribbean countries within a decade.
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Definitely, I was talking about the independence types who believe that their movement was ever popular and that their
armed terroristsbrave revolutionaries were brutally put down by the United States and not the Puerto Ricans themselves.Jump in the discussion.
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dont care not a groomer + ur whxte
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Isnβt that like donating to the NAACP?
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Im Australian and the one person I know who's of South American stock has never heard of the word, so she couldn't even tell me how to prounce it. Can someone explain the latinx thing to me, please? Preferably in as few words as possible. A single syllable should do it.
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Gay
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Well done. Here come the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: A horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.
Snapshots:
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