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

[Mark Mandel]

It eliminates the substrings "man" and "men". IIRC from when it was
proposed, this was the idea behind it. I don't recall any intention to
eliminate number as well; I have to suppose that the proposers either
didn't notice or didn't care.

MAM

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 10:56 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> > 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”.
> >
> > 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. 🐑
> >
> > 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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