Posted on 01/15/2023 11:05:06 AM PST by Impala64ssa
As expected liberals went into whining mode over new Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders issuing an executive order banning state government from using the offensive PC term "LatinX." The liberals may whine but here is an HILARIOUS response to their angst.
Heteronormative objectifying of women, and appropriating Arab culture, you hit the daily double on offensiveness here🤨😃😃😜😜😜
I was hoping for a wardrobe malfunction.
Latino or Latina. All else is latin-martian or whatever alien species they are
I don’t get the Latin thing anyway. My background is Italian. We aren’t latin though we invented the language.
“ Credat Judaeus Apella, non ego.”
Sing it, Hillary!
Only the most coddled and comfortable morons with a full college scholarship can invent imaginary oppressions so stupid.
Cultural imperialism to force a Teutonic neuter gender on a two gender language. The attitude of those bearing the White liberal women’s burden is “You silly little unenlightened brown people don’t know how to speak properly.”
Go rumble
With Sanders I suspect we have another DeSantis on our hands. And that’s a good thing
When I was in the 7th grade I knew I wanted to teach Spanish. I inhaled and devoured as much as I could. I took 5 years of Spanish classes in 4 years of high school. While still studying and practicing in USA, I worked and worked, saved and saved, and eventually attended the University of Salamanca in Spain. I traveled in Central America and Mexico, sucking up as many Spanish dialects as possible.
While even in the 7th grade, it became obvious that male/female is practically EVERYWHERE in the the Spanish language. Thousands of nouns are either male or female, depending on the final vowel: -a- is feminine; -o- is masculine.
Silla = chair
Libro = book
Camisa = shirt
Zapato = shoe
Brazo = arm
Cabeza = head
Every word ending in ‘o’ is masculine. Every word ending in a is feminine. Even the article ‘the’ changes according to the noun: El Libro, La Silla.
There are a few exceptions and irregulars, just like in any language.
The 3rd person pronouns are
Ella - she
Él - he..
The e in the word Él an accent to form the word ‘he.’ Without the accent on the ‘e’, El means ‘the’ Some words in Spanish completely change meaning with an accent on a certain vowel.
A quick search of Spanish language discussions shows that the woke crowd is trying change to a gender neutral pronoun ‘elle’ for he/she. There is a great deal of skepticism that ‘El Wokismo’ will succeed in Europe. We shall see.
Thanks, I got to Spanish 3 and only other experience is with some contractors in the field building houses many moons ago. But probably forgot more than I ever learned. Is there any difference in pronunciation with the accent?
Re pronunciation: there is no pronunciation difference between Él and el. There are huge differences in other situations. For instance. Hablo is present tense ‘I speak.’ Habló, with the accent and stress on the final vowel, is the past tense, he or she ‘spoke.’
For many years I taught GED classes in Spanish. All of the adult students had to be here legally. About 99.999% of them disliked the trespassers and invaders.
I know FReepers love to trash the Huckabees, but I’m good with her.
LOL! “Foo.... sup, foo?”
Italian is the same, and so is French. Everything is gendered.
definite article / subject pronoun / object pronoun
English: the / he, she, it / him, her, it
Spanish: el, la / él, ella / lo, le
Italian: il, la / egli, egla / gli, le
French: le, la / lui, elle / lui, la
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