I hear the term "Latinx" more often from commentators who are against it than anywhere else - and I'm a college professor. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1467878900025937920 …
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Maybe because that's primarily where you notice it?
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I've only heard Latinx used once in conversation and a handful of times in articles/posts/political speech. Have heard complaints about it countless times, in the hundreds. Probably a ratio between 1:50 and 1:100
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I almost never hear it in conversation, probably due to the pronunciation problem, but I often see it used earnestly in print. But hey, if the path to embracing inclusionary language that *isn't* inane ("Latin," "Latine") is a retcon where we pretend "Latinx" was never trendy…
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Yeah, it seems like a linguistic dead end.
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