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To: montag813
the Latinx community.

Latinx - the attempt to culturally enforce a Germanic neuter gender on the Spanish language with only masculine and feminine genders.

4 posted on 05/29/2019 9:26:50 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Latinx - the attempt to culturally enforce a Germanic neuter gender on the Spanish language with only masculine and feminine genders.

German - ostensibly a Germanic language - has three genders (feminine, masculine, and neuter).

English - also a Germanic language - has (aside from archaic remnants) only one gender, or no gender, depending upon how you look at it.

I don't know of any language which employs an "x"-ending to indicate neutrality. Maybe Basque?!

Since we're speaking English, why don't we continue using the already-established gender-free term Latin (e.g., "Latin lover," "Latin languages," etc.) which had been commonplace in this country up until only recently?

Regards,

12 posted on 05/29/2019 9:46:54 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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