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

[Laurence Horn]

You’re right, of course (he acknowledges sheepishly).  I wasn’t seriously proposing that avoiding number discrimination was an intended goal of the creators of “womxn". Note along the same lines the use of “wimmin” as another non-“man/men”-containing plural* whose existence I was reminded of by an obituary in the NYT this week which had the advantage of pronuncibility:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/11/arts/diane-noomin-dead.html

LH

*"a semiphonetic spelling of women, adopted by some feminists”; cf. https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/09/arts/oxford-dictionary-yields-to-wimmin-yuppies-and-yuck.html

(I love the “semiphonetic”)

> On Sep 15, 2022, at 2:54 PM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> 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:
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>>> On Sep 14, 2022, at 10:38 AM, Michael Everson <everson at EVERTYPE.COM>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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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