Posted on 12/19/2020 2:45:58 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Because it sounds absolutely GAY.
There was a sign “Latino’s for TRUMP” on a heavily traveled road in the boonies around here. SOME Latinos LIKE the word.
Latincs?
The amusing thing is that LatinX sounds like a laxative or a tampon.
In all my years of living around Spanish and Mexican people I never heard that term till the last few years.
They were either Spanish(New Mexicans) or Mexicans (Legal), Latinos or Hispanics. Never Latinx.
I think “laxative.”
2 for 1; Combination floor wax and bowel stimulant!
;)
as in, let’s get Chinx for dinner tonight.
It’s weird how folks like Marco Rubio who is 100% European is considered “nonwhite” while we classify Armenians/Arabs/Jews/Persians as “white” even though said folks are from Western Asia.
The thing is, languages like Spanish and French clearly establish male and female forms for nouns. Those languages have a long history, and their speakers aren’t nearly as wimpy as the British and Americans have been in defending the English language.
But, of course, since the media themselves invented this silly term "Latinx", its not only acceptable to force the Spanish language to anglicize for them, but expected to do so, in order for the media to enforce their political correctness on everyone.
In suggesting that Hispanics are cross-dressing perverts, the word is probably a loser.
When I was a kid, “gay” was used to describe something utterly stupid.
That said...Latinx...sounds absolutely f*****g gay.
In the latin culture, men are manly MEN, and women are feminine WOMEN. No confusion. They like Latino, Latina. The gender crap is bs and they know it, and can’t stand it.
The problem is that it sounds terrible in both English and Spanish. In Spanish, essentially all nouns are either male or female. Male nouns typically take the article “el” and usually end in “-o.” Female nouns typically take the article “la” and usually end in “-a.”
In Spanish and English, the letter “x” is a consonant, whereas the letters “a” and “o” are vowels. In both languages, the masculine technically includes the feminine, so that when a Latino joins a group of Latinas, the new group consists of Latinos. If we insist on a gender-neutral alternative in English, then the word “Latin” already can serve this purpose without an “x” as a vowel. Substituting consonants for vowels typically creates ugly, unpronounceable strings of letters, not valid words.
Moreover, in Spanish, the non-word “latinx,” if used as a real noun, must have a gender and take an article and therefore does not escape association with one gender or the other. English works differently. During the shift from Anglo-Saxon (Old English) to Middle English, most English nouns and corresponding modifiers shifted to neuter gender. Nouns that reference or imply biological sex, however, retain the corresponding grammatical gender. And we sometimes refer to ships, countries, the Church, and even machines poetically (or theologically in the case of the Church) in the feminine.
So, if “Latinx” makes no sense in either language, why did the term enter the lexicon? The only answer that I can find involves a very small group of politically influential insane persons, whose exposure to academia rendered them so unnaturally stupid that they lack the intelligence of the most profoundly retarded idiots. These individuals lost their capacity to recognize themselves as either male or female. They also lost the capacity to recognize the difference between vowels and consonants. And they identify as Democrats and unfortunately vote accordingly. Lamentably, most of these individuals, having annihilated their mental function to the extent that they cannot find refuge in homes for the intellectually disabled, work as university professors or administrators.
Witty — but, I hope you’re not making light of the issue. Leftists, & their ilk know that whoever controls the language controls the thinking.
Another recent example — the destruction of the third-person plural personal pronoun (they). We no longer have a third-person plural pronoun — but, we do have a pronoun (they) which implies that no one’s sex (gender — another one) can be determined by looking at ‘them’. Everyone is some kind of quantum mix of male and female; and, therefore, unless ‘they’ tell you otherwise, only the ungendered plural pronoun should be used. When you use ‘they’, where ‘he’ or ‘she’ is called for, your brain has completed its first wash cycle.
That’s been the way a long time now of people using “they” instead of he or she when talking about a singular person. What is new is someone insisting that you REFER to him or her as “they” (plural).
And Penn has had shared unisex bathrooms and showers for decades now.
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