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When did this become a thing?

I've started seeing it around here recently, and it's dumb as hell.

Stahp,

plz, before it spreads

I live in Argentina and it's quite common in not too formal contexts to write things with either @ or and x to eliminate the gender, and I'm quite fond of it. It doesn't only applies to the word Latin@, of course (the other day there seem to be people who thought that) but any word such as Tod@s or Amig@s.

Actually, my dad was telling me he uses when replying work mail and it surprised be a bit.

Geez, I should have re-read. Sorry for butchering the English language.

I've seen it for Filipin@s, also in informal contexts. It tickled me the first time I saw it, and I ended up with a fondness for it, too (though I think it belongs in informal or "people you know" contexts only).

It IS dumb as hell. I first noticed it at Mark Watches, but I've seen it around at other places, too.

"But but but! It has an O and an A! IT'S GENDER NEUTRALIZING A LANGUAGE THAT ISN'T!!! THAT'S SO AWESOME!!"

What the fuck ever.

Wow. That looks really dumb? And how would you say that? It's one thing to have written abbreviations because most of the time, the full word is still used when speaking -- or sometimes if you're talking like OMG or whatever, people will use the letters.

But there's no pronunciation for Latin@s. Unless, and please god tell me no, someone is pushing for "latinoa" to become a standard? But then someone would probably bitch because the o is before the a.

I keep wanting to read it as "Latin-at". I'm sure that can't be correct.

Maybe not correct, but it's how I'll be reading it now, too! :D

Me too. The only time I see @ used is in email addresses, so it means "at" to me. No help for it.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a pronunciation, since it's supposed to be part of the written language only :/

i don't fucking knooow, I hate it. write it as a/o like a normal spanish-speaking person. it's a language not text-speak goddamn

Used like that @ it's an informal version of the old "o/a" and in Spanish it's not only used with Latin@. I don't know why it became common in English but *shrugs* I don't really see the issue ow why it's dumb? ~~Xie/ze, on the other hand...~~

not OP but my issue with it is why must we invent new words (Latin@, zie) when the old ones work perfectly well and everyone understands them without having to ask for an explanation?

Because language never evolves and we never introduce new words into it?

+1!

Re: Latin@s

(Anonymous) - 2013-01-29 03:04 (UTC) - Expand

Except "latin@" it's not a new invented word.

Before, when doubting about someone's genre people would use instead the previously mentioned o/a (as in "latino/a"), now to use less characters they use the @.
And it's better than replacing it with an x (latinx), something people seem to be using in Spanish now to have "non gendered words".

I love when people who surf the Web and access the internet talk about language as if words and their meanings are set in stone and new words are never invented.

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I've been adopting it ever since I saw the professors of the Latin American Studies department at my college use it more and more.

Educate yourself before you denigrate people's word usage (especially when it's on how people choose to name/identify themselves):

http://reclaimingthelatinatag.tumblr.com/post/35869235107/on-the-term-latin

That's why I like the term Hispanic. It's already gender neutral and it doesn't hit my pet peeve radar (I don't get using Latin to refer to anything that's not the language).

I was under the impression that "Hispanic" was offensive now? I could be wrong, I just know that when I was in high school, the Spanish-speaking population there was generally referred to as Hispanic (assuming you weren't talking to somebody who just called them all Mexicans...), but now I hardly ever see that; it's always Latino/Latina.

LOL what? No
My husband is Latino/Hispanic/Mexican-American whatever term you want to call and he's ok with both "Latino" and "Hispanic" (but if you call him "Chicano" he'll punch you in the face)

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(Anonymous) - 2013-01-29 04:22 (UTC) - Expand

Well, I was on the fence about it, but seeing all the butthurt from prescriptivists in this thread I'mma have to do my linguistic duty and and start using Latin@ from now on.

kekekekekekeke

La Real Academia Española will die clutching their dictionaries before they ever allow that abomination to enter official vocabulary, so at least we have that.

iirc, @ has been used in Spain for -a/-o for quite some time?