One person responded, and says that it sounds a bit weird to him too, and it's been a topic of debate for a while because Spanish doesn't naturally have gender-neutral endings. He says he prefers to just omit the gender-defining vowel, like "amigs" instead of "amigos" or "amigas." The use of @ is also common, like "amig@s," which I've seen from my Spanish professors before. Use of the vowel 'e' is also becoming more common.
I don't know how the @ is pronounced, I've only seen it in writing. So it seems purely typographical. But so is substituting the X in for the gendered vowel in most cases. I've only ever heard the X pronounced in "latinx" (in my relatively limited experience as a non-native speaker)
I've definitely heard a similar critique from people who are "latinx"
I just asked the #en-español channel on the discord about it. I'm interested to hear the perspectives of native speaker comrades.
Let me know what they say! Also curious
One person responded, and says that it sounds a bit weird to him too, and it's been a topic of debate for a while because Spanish doesn't naturally have gender-neutral endings. He says he prefers to just omit the gender-defining vowel, like "amigs" instead of "amigos" or "amigas." The use of @ is also common, like "amig@s," which I've seen from my Spanish professors before. Use of the vowel 'e' is also becoming more common.
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I don't know how the @ is pronounced, I've only seen it in writing. So it seems purely typographical. But so is substituting the X in for the gendered vowel in most cases. I've only ever heard the X pronounced in "latinx" (in my relatively limited experience as a non-native speaker)
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