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muriel_volestrangler

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2. Of course, you could just say 'Latin'

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2020, 09:36 AM

Dec 2020

Controversial to use a gender-neutral term that's been used in English for (checks OED) 620 years to refer to people (Chaucer: "the Latyn folk" ), I know, but desperate times call for desperate measures ...

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Matthew Yglesias: The Latinx problem [View all] brooklynite Dec 2020 OP

Inventing that term has bothered me, too. MineralMan Dec 2020 #1

Of course, you could just say 'Latin' muriel_volestrangler Dec 2020 #2

French, Italian, and Portuguese people are also "Latin" under that definition, though. MineralMan Dec 2020 #3

Not in general usage muriel_volestrangler Dec 2020 #4

I remain in favor of using whatever terminology the group being discussed MineralMan Dec 2020 #5

Latinex is a term I neve see used here in New Mexico. comradebillyboy Dec 2020 #6

My Latino friends and family hate that word. I refuse to use it or type it Sympthsical Dec 2020 #7

Gender neutral innovations in language are always hard to accept frazzled Dec 2020 #8

Silly MenloParque Dec 2020 #9