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LatinX - Another Gender Neutral Butchering of Language

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I live in essentially a Latino working-class community. I've asked some Latinos how they pronounce "Latinx."

The younger ones--generation Z--have heard of it and pronounce it "Latin-Ex," but they don't incorporate it into their own spoken Spanish.

The older ones think it's just ignorant and arrogant for Anglos to try to fix a "problem" with their language that they don't believe they have.

These naming conventions are ridiculous. I saw "Latinx" and first thought it referred to some Latina version of "minx", lol!
 
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How do they force simplification?

Mass media introduces commonality across a wide board. Printers--and their editors--introduce uniformity, largely for the sake of their own convenience. Printed work quickly crowded out individually written copywork and the more numerous individual peculiarities that copywork would routinely introduce.

That tendency increased exponentially with electrical and electronic media.

Check some of the English grammar textbooks of 50 years ago and marvel at how many grammar rules are commonly ignored in the mass media even today.
 
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