I now know how "latinx" is pronounced - Heard a political science professor pronounce it

[Splendid]

It's pronounced the same way as "Latin"

 

[Ntwadumela]

Praise Allah

 

[Ariel]

Why do they put the X on the end? I've noticed The Guardian groups anything written by an abodiginal under the title 'indigenous X'

 

[Randy Lahey]

It’s actually pronounced “attention seeking sped”

 

[Splendid]

Why do they put the X on the end? I've noticed The Guardian groups anything written by an abodiginal under the title 'indigenous X'

It's supposed to be gender neutral since Spanish (and maybe Portugese? Let me know @AN/ALR56) don't really have the concept of something being gender neutral in their language. Latino is a masculine noun and Latina is the feminine version.
Latinx is an artificial English gender neutral construct. In Spanish, the default is usually the masculine when the gender of a noun would be uncertain (unlikely, since all nouns have a gender arbitrarily associated with them in that language, but it could happen.)
It's not exactly retarded to try to come up with a good gender neutral noun for English speakers who use neutral nouns in this situation. We already have "latin", but that has other historical connotations and includes some groups like Italians that are considered 100% white, and some might argue, excludes some of the people that latinx covers.

Now latinx has its problems too. For one, having a silent X in English is fucking insane, and I believe it's unprecedented for a native nontechnical word, and there is no way to infer the pronounciation. I think that just going with the word Latin is the way to go, but whatever.

 

[Somsnosa]

it's the kind of idiocy only english speakers would come up with
just use the male latino/latinos like normal people do

 

[ShittyRecolor]

Good to know I can still rhyme "latinx" with "flatten".

 

[Sperglord Dante]

It's not exactly exceptional to try to come up with a good gender neutral noun for English speakers who use neutral nouns in this situation. We already have "latin", but that has other historical connotations and includes some groups like Italians that are considered 100% white, and some might argue, excludes some of the people that latinx covers.

No, it is retarded as all fuck because latin@ already existed and it's 50% less cringy than latinx. And using latino as gender neutral is even less cringy.

 

[LikeicareKF]

Why do they put the X on the end? I've noticed The Guardian groups anything written by an abodiginal under the title 'indigenous X'

Fake news, abos can't write

some groups like Italians that are considered 100% white

Italians aren't white

 

[bearycool]

Yeah, it's pronounced just as Latin, with x signifying you're getting rid of the -a or -o suffixes giving the word a grammatical gender. The x was chosen to signify in some way an omission of sound.

tl;dr, Spanish tranny weirdness.

 

[MistressCaridad]

tl;dr, Spanish tranny weirdness.

A large portion of the people I've seen using "Latinx" are usually plain ol' lily white non-Spanish speaking Tumblr turds. It's fucking hilarious to me as a Latina.

 

[Pepito The Cat]

No, it is exceptional as all fuck because latin@ already existed and it's 50% less cringy than latinx. And using latino as a gender neutral is even less cringy.

This. I always cringe when I see Spanish speakers use LATINX instead of LATIN@. It shows where their ideologies come from.

 

[The Colonel]

I believe it's pronounced 'autistic.'

 

[Chefbot]

I'm disappointed it has nothing to with Roman legionnaires on skateboards.

 

[araiguma]

I heard latinx on the radio today said as latin-x (as in Latin and then just saying x) which sounds like a super villan or something. Of course they made a point to mention the prof. Used a gender neutral version.

But how would one say latin@ ?

 

[Splendid]

No, it is exceptional as all fuck because latin@ already existed and it's 50% less cringy than latinx. And using latino as a gender neutral is even less cringy.

Using a punctuation character invented exclusively for disambiguation in telecommunications in the real world is cringey.
Also, the correct pronounciation of that character anywhere but an email address is "at symbol", so that word is pronounced Latin-at symbol.

 

[Fareal]

I thought it was said lah-teen-ix, I am disappoint

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I thought it was said lah-teen-ix, I am disappoint

I thought that's what it was too, then I heard my really SJW teacher say it like "latin-ecks".
She also used words like "man-splainy" to describe things so I wouldn't call her a language expert by any means.

 

[Maggots on a Train]

Some dimwit woman on NPR the other day said her gender was "Latin X", the same as you would say Malcom X. It always feels strange when :autism: leaks into the real world.

 

[friedshrimp]

I'd call that "attention seeking", but I usually see that the people who use that dumbass world who are latinos/hispanics are pretty much the typical 20 year old/teen that's spending a little too much time on social media...