J. Kb sent me her twwet becse he is evil like that.
I am still trying to figure out if She (and the rest of the morons that use the term) realize how insulting the darned word is for us. Spanish is nt only a gendered language but a rigidly structured one. Even though every country may have its own particular lexicon, it is understood by all that the language rules must be followed with precision. All syllables sound the same in every word, no changes, grammar rules apply 99% of the times and there is no let up, accents marks follow a strict set up, and no foreign or made up words unless used in a very narrow and specific content. That is the reason why a Latino third grader can pick a 16 century manuscript in Spanish, read it and understand 80% of it without sweating and read it almost perfectly. There is very little change in Spanish, it is dogmatic. And before you yo nuts at the narrowness of the language and protest, don’t: we like it that way.
Latinex is some made up political crap that reeks superiority as she was better than me for making language shit up. It is insulting because we learned in school that “X” denotes the unknown, something to be determined which we are not. And if possible worse (in the SJW side of things), Latinex is cultural appropriation. It steals from the Black leaders from the Civil Rights ear who chose to use X rather what they consider their “slave names.” At the end of the day Latinex is not only an insult to our heritage and language but an affront to Black struggle in our country.
Hell, you may even call it racist.
PS: Her Spanish in the interview was at best acceptable as i would consider a Gringo with a lot of practice have. Native language? Not even in a wet dream day.
I like that last comment in the tweet chain.
What AOC is trying to do amounts to a wholesale denial that Spanish — like many Indo-European languages — is a language with “grammatical gender”. She is so ignorant, or so fanatical, that she doesn’t appreciate English is very much an outlier in that it (no longer) has any significant grammatical gender features. Because of that linguistic narrowness she also does not appreciate the fact that there is no direct connection between biological gender and grammatical gender.
” Spanish is n[o]t only a gendered language but a rigidly structured one.”
Yep. I learned that in high school Spanish class in the ’60s. Everything has gender in Spanish, even inanimate objects that would be neuter in English. Forgot a lot of Spanish over the years, but I remember that.
The same goes for French, which has two grammatical genders so everything is either masculine or feminine, grammatically speaking. And there isn’t any logic to which is which.
A bunch of other Indo-European languages also have grammatical genders, but three rather than two (adding neuter). But even there you won’t find a connection between grammatical gender and biology. In German the world is feminine but a tree is masculine. In Dutch and German, girls are neuter, but boys are not (mostly because the world for “girl” is a diminutive and those are always neuter).
I thought AOC was born in the US? Why the 1st Gen reference?
Because AOC is an idiot.
If she is denying the gender nature of her first language, latina/latino, then she is denying gender across the board.
Which means she is not the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, because as a latinx, she is claiming to be genderless.
And here, once again, we have the Cultural Impearialsim of the Woke imposing their values on other cultures.
And spare us the “poor childe of immigrants” thing, Occasional-Cotex. Baby, you’re a rich gal raised in the suburbs.