yup, struggle session time
edit: no one is right, everyone is wrong :^)
edit 2: this post is actually dedicated to Amy Goodman, please stop trying to sound cool grandma
yup, struggle session time
edit: no one is right, everyone is wrong :^)
edit 2: this post is actually dedicated to Amy Goodman, please stop trying to sound cool grandma
It's why I suggest to use "Latin" - in Spanish it sounds fine and is naturally intelligible. In English writing, Latinx might work, only if you don't actually try to pronounce it "Latin-ecks"
Uhhh then how the fuck do you pronounce it?
Latin
Is there some nuance of Spanish orthography I'm not getting or did people really just stick an x on the end and expect people not to pronounce it for some reason
It's supposed to be like a variable "x" that does not specify typical endings of words "a" and "o". It's silent and the pronunciation is Latin. I guess english speakers got confused and started pronouncing it. Elsewhere, X itself is pronounced "equis" or "ekis". Irrelevant, but the letter X has a pretty interesting history in the Spanish language and you may be interested in checking it out.
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Can confirm. Am PhD grad, I read articles and don't talk to people. Every time someone says a name or word out loud that I've seen dozens of times but never heard pronounced I nearly do a spit take. For example: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
Also to show you how pervasive this is the head of my department is fluent in Spanish and I'm pretty sure she says Latin-ecks.
Thanks for the explanation. Before I had no opinion in particular about the term Latinx, but using silent math variables in speech is skin crawlingly awful to me as an English teacher