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55 points

No binarie, “e” it’s used to imply gender neutral. Which is why latinx is an oxymoron, because in Spanish would be “latine”.

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Latinx is something that English speakers that don’t understand the Spanish language came up with. It’s unpronounceable and annoying.

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Sadly, it’s actually used here. Same thing with the “e” instead of “o” or “a”.

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13 points

Latine doesn’t bother me, at least you can pronounce it.

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1 point

So a girl manitee would be called a maniteehee

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I always thought it ended the same way as Kleenex brand tissues. The one you want when the snot gets hot.

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Same problem as portuguese. People insisting on “elx” or “todxs” instead of using a fucking vowel really should’ve spent half a second thinking about how to pronounce that shit. Hell, even with @ it doesn’t help at all, we spell the symbol as “arroba”, so it implies feminine gender in the end

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el arroba o la arroba?

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For portuguese, its “o” or “a” instead of el/la, so it’s “a arroba

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Except this doesn’t happen – at all. Gender neutral words in Spanish and Portuguese are holdovers from an older form of the language. Don’t force an Anglocentric sensibility onto others.

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I’ve seen some people use the “e” for non binary in Mexico

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I’ve seen people spell words in all sorts of ways, doesn’t mean it’s an accepted practice.

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