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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tawdry street Spanish.

I got news for you- they say a whole lotta thinks in Naples Italy don’t belong in high school Italian.[/quote]

You seem confused.  No part of this conversation has anything to do with “street Spanish” (whatever that is) but rather with how the Spanish language is evolving to confront the reality of women’s rights and inclusiveness of non-binary people.  PP was arguing that in her circle, no one cares about women’s or gender queer rights.  Meanwhile, in the real world, many presidents of Spanish speaking countries, the highest officials responsible for human rights in every Spanish speaking country, organizations like the OAS, most academics, and the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española care very much, and have written reams of articles about how to confront the issue, including detailed debates by prominent linguists about the pros and cons of os/as, the neutral “e”, and using “@“.

The weird tendency of DCUM posters to claim to be native Spanish speakers but clearly have no idea whatsoever about enormous social and political trends in the Spanish speaking world is so strange.  I really suspect that these people are Anglo trolls claiming to be Spanish speakers in order to seem credible in their anti-woke crusade. [/quote]

This is too funny.

The woke brigade trying to force Spanish speakers in the Latinx box is losing. Only 3-4% Hispanics like the term, the majority despises it...but the woke brigade, which is 99% anglo, now wants you to believe that the 96-97% Hispanics who don't like the term....we are "Anglo trolls."

Living in a bubble makes you lose sense of reality I guess.

Also, the poster quoting Fernandez as some kind of role model is quite funny too. A corrupt far-left politician making things worse for the vast majority of his compatriots and increasingly despised by his own party.

If I can bring this back to OP's initial message...if your kids have Spanish and French or whatever classes which includes these x nonsense, be suspicious.[/quote]

You have no awareness whatsoever of what's going on in government and academia in the Spanish speaking world and you don't seem to understand how the Spanish language works, so yeah, I think you're an Anglo troll whose understanding is limited to "X is bad".  Go back to watching Fox news and fretting about immigrants taking your job.    [/quote]

Different PP and a native Spanish speaker born in Latin America.  It’s not quite as easy in Spanish to just have gender neutral pronouns.  In English, you can just change the pronouns and it doesn’t affect the verbs used.  In Spanish as in many Romance languages, changing the pronouns means you change the verbs too.  And I have a family member who works in the Real Academia and it’s very complicated.  It’s a choice between butchering a language and appeasing a small segment of the population to try and be inclusive.  [/quote]

I think the point is that it it’s reasonable to teach kids in elite private schools that this ongoing discussion about the evolution of the language is going on. I doubt there is any school at all that is teaching that -e is how Spanish is spoken, but I’d hope that the upper level classes have a discussion of the subject generally. It seems ignorant to not teach what the Spanish Academy is extensively discussing. [/quote]

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