Buenos Aires bans LatinX!

[It’s so Joever]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/world/americas/argentina-gender-neutral-spanish.html

[kaoras]

But I thought that absolutely No Latinos used the term, what is the need of banning it?. All the people interviewed there must be Anglo imperialist transplants /s.

More seriously, I find banning it kinda dumb but is interesting they felt the need to go that far, was there really a push for using it on schools? In Chile you would never hear todes or write todxs in formal settings  _{Unless is an statement from a College's Humanities student center, that's it}

[Dr. MB]

I assumed this was only a thing in the US

[CumbrianLefty]

Stupid word, even sillier fuss about it.

[kaoras]

I assumed this was only a thing in the US

To quote myself:

The reason the poll is about writing is because Latinx is for writing. You don't "say" Latinx o latin@ , you read it in your mind as whatever you want but you still have the visual cue that is inclusive. When I read latinx on Atlas I read it as Latino, that is also the reason why is so popular compared with latine, latine disrupts your reading while Latinx does not.

This is why I always insist that Latinx came from Spanish speakers. Is something that makes perfect sense for written Spanish which has plenty of abbreviations impossible to pronounce like these

But Latinx as an inclusive form doesn't make any sense whatsoever in English (and yes, saying l-ah-tinks out loud is dumb)

For spoken Spanish some people do use latine but is more common to say todas y todos and so on (and in fact that form is VERY widespread in formal settings in Chile)

As far as lenguaje inclusivo goes Latinx is actually kinda clever.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

But I thought that absolutely No Latinos used the term, what is the need of banning it?. All the people interviewed there must be Anglo imperialist transplants /s.

More seriously, I find banning it kinda dumb but is interesting they felt the need to go that far, was there really a push for using it on schools? In Chile you would never hear todes or write todxs in formal settings  _{Unless is an statement from a College's Humanities student center, that's it}

Seems like red meat for the base from the mayor as he prepares to run for president.

[Agonized-Statism]

Because that absolutely needed addressing over all Argentina's other problems right now.

[Edu]

More seriously, I find banning it kinda dumb but is interesting they felt the need to go that far, was there really a push for using it on schools? In Chile you would never hear todes or write todxs in formal settings  _{Unless is an statement from a College's Humanities student center, that's it}

I'm 35 so I don't hang out with high school or college aged students, but it's my understanding that for a few years now, schools and colleges (public ones at least) accept "inclusive language" in essays, exams and all that.

Seems like red meat for the base from the mayor as he prepares to run for president.

The vast majority of people either don't give a crap or hate the inclusive language thing, so he gets to ban it, please the people who don't like it and the kirchnerists can't focus against that issue so much without looking like idiots (last year some kirchnerists were even complaining that they lost the election because there was too much focus on "woke" stuff and not real problems).

Because that absolutely needed addressing over all Argentina's other problems right now.

Yeah, maybe the guys that control the presidency, half of congress and like 20/23 provinces should do something about that!

[Bootes Void]

Lmfao

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

YES! BASED CITY!

[TheTide]

'Latinx' sounds like a deodorant. Probably useful for me.

[Cortarán todas las flores, pero jamás detendrán la primavera]

More seriously, I find banning it kinda dumb but is interesting they felt the need to go that far, was there really a push for using it on schools? In Chile you would never hear todes or write todxs in formal settings  _{Unless is an statement from a College's Humanities student center, that's it}

Maybe you guys need a #Ally and deconstructed president like Alberto (present Alberto though, the old one wasn't uh, quite as deconstructed)
Or someone like Kicillof who'll defend our patriotic inclusive language against spanish linguistic imperialism!

Jokes aside, no one really cares about this, that article makes it sound like there's some "heated debate", but in reality this was on the news for a couple days and then everyone moved on. Inclusive language isn't very popular, and Larreta is just trying to score some easy points on this issue, made even easier by kirchnerists doin stuff like this:

https://twitter.com/Rosariotres/status/1539702075587690497

There wasn't much of an echo elsewhere either, the governent of Jujuy presented a bill to ban it as well but had to withdraw it as it was badly written and would've banned the use of indienous languages in schools.

[CumbrianLefty]

Jokes aside, no one really cares about this, that article makes it sound like there's some "heated debate", but in reality this was on the news for a couple days and then everyone moved on.

Really?? You shock me.