[Ads-l] Latinx

Mark Mandel markamandel at GMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 14 16:45:21 UTC 2020


¿You mean the spelling "Latinx"? So italicize the "x" as a mathematical
variable: Latin*x.*

MAM

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 10:45 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Huh?
> https://news.yahoo.com/latinx-mostly-unknown-term-even-035021574.html
>
> (Ironic "huh?"  Of course I'm familiar with it! But this spelling is
> absurd.)
>
> JL
>
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