It's pronounced Latinx. A thread.
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So why not just amiges and make the pronunciation way less confusing?
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Because that’s not how the letter e is pronounced in spanish.
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This is a good question, Stefan! Some people do, in fact, spell it that was in Spanish. It’s just that I personally have seen amigxs a lot longer in Spanish (and in Portuguese, which I’m not getting into for now).
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I've always seen it written as "amigxs" or "amig@s" but it is usually pronounced "amigues" (the u is there for phonetical reasons, so that the g sounds the same). That x is very difficult to pronounce.
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yeah I couldn't find any other Spanish words where x is pronounced like ue in Spanish or e in English so it seems like a whole new interpretation is needed for latinx/amigxs to catch on...
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Hmm. So, there are *lots* of pronunciations for x; as a Spanish language speaker I’m letting you know that a lot of Spanish language speakers who do use the word and pronounce it as “ah-MEE-guess.”
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And that that pronunciation already exists and has already taken hold in various places without additional interpretation. We can discuss it, it’s use, its variations, it’s limits, etc—but the word exists and is being used.
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Good to know! English is full of arbitrary pronunciations so I guess nbd, I've just always thought of Spanish as much more strict in that way, but then again my knowledge is very limited
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Sorry. I'm not following. Is it (in Spanish-like phonetics) "Latin-es"? "Amig-ues"? ---I've always found the "approximation" of English phonetics very weird. It's like Canadians don't pronounce "a-boot" instead of "a-bout" or other regionalisms don't exist.
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Latinx or amigxs does't exist in Spanish, it's a made up term, I'm afraid. And of course latines or amigues pronunciation is very weird to a native ear. You can check "La Real Academia de la Lengua Española" website for doubts: http://www.rae.es/recursos/diccionarios/dpd …
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This is super helpful. I've seen Latinx written for years but I've never heard it pronounced.
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So it could also be La-TEE-nes? Or only La-TEE-nex? I’m sorry! I really want to know how to do this right!
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