[Ads-l] Article on non-use of "Latinx" in Spanish-speaking communities

[Laurence Horn]

> On Sep 14, 2022, at 10:38 AM, Michael Everson <everson at EVERTYPE.COM> wrote:
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> I’m sure if hispanophones wanted to make such a linguistic distinction they would choose “latine”. 
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> I have friends who insist on writing “womxn”. I don’t know what their goal is but as far as I can tell just obliterates the plural. 🐑
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> Michael Everson
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Well, it *is* number-inclusive, effacing the culturally problematic distinction between singular and plural.   As we say at Yale, baa.

LH
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