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[–] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Except the desire to degender everything is a specifically English endeavor, and only because it doesn't have gender based nouns. Spanish is VERY MUCH A GENDERED LANGUAGE. Also, Spanish already HAS a neutral article, "Lo" so not even using that while inventing our own bullshit is the most pearl clutching nonsense I've ever seen

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Oh, thinking you can change a major language structure to make it more PC is dumb as hell. I'm not advocating for it, but I do understand a shred of of where that push is coming from. Spanish is VERY MUCH A GENDERED LANGUAGE... but... why? Why is my chair a girl, and shoe a boy? The status quo in this case is about as dumb as thinking we can change it.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Its literally a fools errand. Especially since most people speak languages that are strongly gendered. It's just a self-absorbed virtue signal. The people who made Latinx obviously never stopped to ask most Latin people what they thought of the whole endeavour... And no, I don't mean Francis your half Mexican schoolmate from private school...

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