• spider@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 days ago

    Singular “they” has been used since the 1600s at least.

    Which is why I said it’s usually a reference to more than one person.

    Neopronouns are like xim and xer. Which I have never seen anyone use in the wild, honestly.

    Even though it isn’t a neopronoun, for the most part the same applies to “Latinx”.

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      Latinx was such a stupid choice. Let’s take gendered words with a vowel at the end and replace the vowel with a hard consonant. It makes it so much harder to say and sounds wrong.

      They should have picked a more sensible sound that flows like the original words.

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        8 days ago

        It may have been inspired by “x” representing an unknown variable like you would see in a math equation, so in that context, it kind of makes sense.

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          Yeah I understand why x looks good on paper. As soon as you try to use in in spoken dialog the flaws become apparent. It’s clearly not going to work.