points by dpark 3 days ago | 0 comments
Interesting. Google trends shows that Latine is more common in Spain (and everywhere that isn’t the US).
Nonetheless I appreciate a perspective from someone who has an affiliation with the culture term refers to.
[–] wolvoleo 3 days ago
[–] dpark 2 days ago
I have never seen Latin@ at all (but I also do not speak Spanish). Is that a common a/o replacement?
I find it interesting that the Hispanic LGBTQ+ community would use LatinX. How is this even pronounced in Spanish? Latin-equis? Or is it the English Latin-ex?
[–] wolvoleo 2 days ago
Yes in my scene @ and x are both common. I like the @ option.
Like I said nobody pronounces either option because it's unpronounceable. That's why the 'e' is a better option IMO.
[–] elondaits 2 days ago
You can pronounce it as “Latine”:
[–] dpark 2 days ago
But then why not just write “Latine”?
[–] elondaits 1 day ago
Because there are consonants that change their sound before an “e”. So, say, the word “chicos” (boys) and “chicas” (girls) should be written as “chiques” in neutral because the c sounds like an s and not like a k with an e in front… but “chiques” doesn’t look like “chicos”… visually it’s not recognizable… while “chicxs” is much easier to parse. So that's why some people prefer the neutral to be written with an x.
But my friends and in the LGBT+ communities chat groups I only see people using the x and @.