Real talk, this is the pronoun fight all over again. If you don't like it, don't use it. If someone asks you to use it, anyway, be nice for the ten minutes it takes to finish a conversation and get back to tuning your perfectly rational grammatical hangups in peace. This ain't hard. Most US state governments haven't even gotten around to totally removing the N-word from their constitutions, so I dunno what slippery slope you think we're on here.
Its the chauvinism of people who aren't Spanish speakers shoe horning in something that doesnt fit the grammar of the language. Latine already exists and is more commonly used by non-binary speakers of spanish
I return to my first comment, "imagine caring about colonist grammar this much". The planet is literally on fire and this is a thread concern trolling about protecting the sanctity of a settler-colonist language, while simultaneously using "Spanish-speakers" as some monolith who both a) care about this extremely low-stakes issue and b) have already all come to the same conclusion on it.
It's possible to care about low stakes things and high stakes things simultaneously, and also to weigh in on things you don't care that much about, or in your case to care a lot about how much other people care about it I guess? Just don't comment if it's too low stakes to be a waste of time.
Im weighing in because your comparison of this to the "pls flair your pronouns" struggle session is bad because there are a lot of solid and non-transphobic reasons to think that "latinx" is a ridiculous term, not the least of which being that it's impossible to pronounce in Spanish and looks to solve a problem that has already been addressed.
And yeah of course Spanish speakers aren't a monolith but when you're talking about the language it makes sense to, uh, talk about the group of people who speak it? What other groups should we be talking about here?
To be honest, I think you've correctly identified that I have fallen for the poster's trap and gotten sucked into nonsense. At the end of the day, this is cringing about a thing that only English speakers do, anyway (so I guess the resolution to the grammatical issue is "it's an English word, not a Spanish one"), so I'm gonna check out.
Real talk, this is the pronoun fight all over again. If you don't like it, don't use it. If someone asks you to use it, anyway, be nice for the ten minutes it takes to finish a conversation and get back to tuning your perfectly rational grammatical hangups in peace. This ain't hard. Most US state governments haven't even gotten around to totally removing the N-word from their constitutions, so I dunno what slippery slope you think we're on here.
Its the chauvinism of people who aren't Spanish speakers shoe horning in something that doesnt fit the grammar of the language. Latine already exists and is more commonly used by non-binary speakers of spanish
I return to my first comment, "imagine caring about colonist grammar this much". The planet is literally on fire and this is a thread concern trolling about protecting the sanctity of a settler-colonist language, while simultaneously using "Spanish-speakers" as some monolith who both a) care about this extremely low-stakes issue and b) have already all come to the same conclusion on it.
It's possible to care about low stakes things and high stakes things simultaneously, and also to weigh in on things you don't care that much about, or in your case to care a lot about how much other people care about it I guess? Just don't comment if it's too low stakes to be a waste of time.
Im weighing in because your comparison of this to the "pls flair your pronouns" struggle session is bad because there are a lot of solid and non-transphobic reasons to think that "latinx" is a ridiculous term, not the least of which being that it's impossible to pronounce in Spanish and looks to solve a problem that has already been addressed.
And yeah of course Spanish speakers aren't a monolith but when you're talking about the language it makes sense to, uh, talk about the group of people who speak it? What other groups should we be talking about here?
To be honest, I think you've correctly identified that I have fallen for the poster's trap and gotten sucked into nonsense. At the end of the day, this is cringing about a thing that only English speakers do, anyway (so I guess the resolution to the grammatical issue is "it's an English word, not a Spanish one"), so I'm gonna check out.