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Is "latine" the new latinx after that got overwhelmingly rejected by actually latino people? If so that seems very presumptuous to try, again, to push something onto a foreign language the speakers do not want.

It also reads very unfortunate, I did a triple take because I kept processing it as latrine.

Latino*

FTFY. Please don't massacre our language.

thats not how our language works

latino*

You know uhh, no comment on the shit flinging in the comments, but I've always liked latine over latinx, feels more natural to use a vowel there than like, an x. Shout out to latiny as being the highly underrated evolution, which unifies both the use of a vowel and something adjacent to the x, while also sounding really dumb and funny.

I dunno. Seems similar to the outcries and moral panic that people used to have against neopronouns, or pronouns in bio, to me, without realizing that they use neopronouns all the time whenever they call someone dude or bro. I feel like I've left this comment here before, but I do wonder whether or not neopronouns like dude or bro are more acceptable because they're kind of a more natural integration into language than most of the academic postulations on "oh, what if we made a gender-neutral singular pronoun", or if they're more acceptable precisely because they're kind of gendered. We're all dudes, hey, but at the same time, it would be kind of stupid to say that dude doesn't refer to or see use by mostly men, and is kind of gendered. I dunno, I'm sure "dude" and "bro" were pretty heavily hated when they were used, so maybe it's just that whenever anything novel with language is done, it's doomed to be shat on relentlessly by prescriptivist nonces.

I dunno maybe we all just need to speak like, ithkuli or something, so nobody ever talks to each other.