UFOs are real and they're spectacular

[Admiral Yi]

I got it.

Latinx's 15 minutes might be over.

[Jacob]

The thing with Latinx et. al. is that it's pretty awkward to pronounce. It's fine for written discourse, but for spoken language I don't know. I don't speak Spanish (in spite of a few years of high school Spanish), but it seems to me that if you intend to make a change you'd be better off backing a different vowel.

Like, say, use -e to replace -o and -a. So "Latine" instead of "Latino" and "Latina". I count vouch for the beauty of it or the likelihood of uptake, but at least people would have an idea of how to pronounce it.

[garbon]

Yeah, it was a play on changing "O" to "X" as neutral gender.

Oh I got why you said it, just seemed an odd place to randomly punch down.

[celedhring]

The thing with Latinx et. al. is that it's pretty awkward to pronounce. It's fine for written discourse, but for spoken language I don't know. I don't speak Spanish (in spite of a few years of high school Spanish), but it seems to me that if you intend to make a change you'd be better off backing a different vowel.

Like, say, use -e to replace -o and -a. So "Latine" instead of "Latino" and "Latina". I count vouch for the beauty of it or the likelihood of uptake, but at least people would have an idea of how to pronounce it.

-e is indeed the option pushed over here.

[Sheilbh]

The thing with Latinx et. al. is that it's pretty awkward to pronounce. It's fine for written discourse, but for spoken language I don't know. I don't speak Spanish (in spite of a few years of high school Spanish), but it seems to me that if you intend to make a change you'd be better off backing a different vowel.

Like, say, use -e to replace -o and -a. So "Latine" instead of "Latino" and "Latina". I count vouch for the beauty of it or the likelihood of uptake, but at least people would have an idea of how to pronounce it.

I believe latine is the gender neutral equivalent in Spanish.

I don't know if there are many et als on this though - I think -x is a suffix that signifies something in English. So we can say and know what is meant by Mx. It strikes me as an issue with Latinx if the only way to practically pronounce it is to treat it as an English word

And for what it's worth I believe there's been polling of the latino community in the US which has found that only 2-3% of people use it, less than a quarter know what it means and the preferred term is actually "hispanic".

[The Brain]

Wasn't Latrine a character in Top Secret?

[grumbler]

The thing with Latinx et. al. is that it's pretty awkward to pronounce. It's fine for written discourse, but for spoken language I don't know. I don't speak Spanish (in spite of a few years of high school Spanish), but it seems to me that if you intend to make a change you'd be better off backing a different vowel.

Like, say, use -e to replace -o and -a. So "Latine" instead of "Latino" and "Latina". I count vouch for the beauty of it or the likelihood of uptake, but at least people would have an idea of how to pronounce it.

I believe latine is the gender neutral equivalent in Spanish.

I don't know if there are many et als on this though - I think -x is a suffix that signifies something in English. So we can say and know what is meant by Mx. It strikes me as an issue with Latinx if the only way to practically pronounce it is to treat it as an English word

And for what it's worth I believe there's been polling of the latino community in the US which has found that only 2-3% of people use it, less than a quarter know what it means and the preferred term is actually "hispanic".

How about spelling it "latinx" and pronouncing it as "lateen eh"?  It wouldn't be the worst disconnect in English between spelling and pronunciation.

[fromtia]

What are these mysterious vehicles that the government is reporting? Any one care to speculate wildly?

[Razgovory]

Probably a drone combined with a some sort of illusion that makes it look faster than it is.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm thinking drones as well.

[fromtia]

Whose drones? Blofeldts? Dr.No?

[The Brain]

Probably apes. Together they are strong.

[Admiral Yi]

Whose drones? Blofeldts? Dr.No?

Theodore J. Hobbyist

[Razgovory]

Whose drones? Blofeldts? Dr.No?

Small commercial drones bought over the internet by space aliens who no longer put much effort into these sorts of things.  These days that don't even make elaborate disguises when they go outside.  They just put a mask on and nobody bats an eye.

[Sheilbh]

What are these mysterious vehicles that the government is reporting? Any one care to speculate wildly?

Aliens.