# Question: LatinX? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 22, 2021, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-latinx/938464 "2021-03-22T22:42:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-latinx/938464/101 "2021-04-07T17:26:00Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > One could see sentences like “That is a Latino neighborhood” or equally “That neighborhood has a lot of Latinos”. Said another way the noun version is countable and the adjective isn’t (of course) > > So if we’re going to switch from the -o male supposedly including female to the -x explictly gender non-specific we’d (or at least I’d) expect to follow the same pattern: > “That is a Latinx neighborhood” or equally “That neighborhood has a lot of Latinxes”. If you were absolutely forced to pick and assign a gender for “neighbourhood” in English, I think it might actually be feminine. (?) So it would then be more correct to say, “That is a Latina neighbourhood.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-latinx/938464/102 "2021-04-07T18:29:46Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > If you were absolutely forced to pick and assign a gender for “neighbourhood” in English, I think it might actually be feminine. (?) So it would then be more correct to say, “That is a Latina neighbourhood.” 😉 Oo boy. That is a tough one because in Spanish, you can use either **La** vecindad, or **el** vencidario…so…yeah er. well I guess whichever you want? `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-latinx/938464/103 "2021-04-08T00:56:24Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Merriam-Webster only lists it as an adjective. Which is my more frequent experience, the adjective use. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-latinx/938464/104 "2021-04-08T02:55:44Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > what I’d guess you’d call European descent (meaning Mayflower type, from Connecticut, family are multi-generational Fairfield Hunt Club members, etc.) > [@JohnT](#): > > ‘Anglo’. That’s the word. More like **"Uber-Anglo**" or **"Ultra-Anglo**" or perhaps better still: **“There Are No Anglos Any Anglo-er Then THESE Anglos”** BTW: **“Latinx”** is **“Abolish the Police”**'s less-dangerous-and-almost-as-ill-advised little brother. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-latinx/938464/105 "2021-04-08T13:40:53Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > You _are_ in fact being prescriptive. What do you think objecting to how others use these loanwords that are part of the evolving American English language _is_ ? > > I’ve read no one in this thread prescriptively “correct” anyone else’s use of “Latino” or “Latino/Latina” or “Hispanic” … the only prescriptiveness I read is an attempt to “correct” those who use “LatinX”. Come, now. The entire _existence_ of Latinx is an artificial prescription contrived to correct a perceived deficiency in Spanish. It’s not prescriptive to debate whether another hypercorrective prescription is appropriate or not. You can do better than “no u”, I think. If it’s a Spanish word, then it’s not correct to neutralize it as “LatinX”, and Spanish speakers have repeatedly stated it’s awkward and unnecessary for the stated goal. If we try to declare it a loanword to the English language, then the suffix “O” does not need to be neutralized because English doesn’t use “O” as a masculine gender modifier! Its gender is confiscated at customs! There’s nothing to neuter! People are going to say what they want to say, but nobody should ever accept any stated grammar-based rationale for “LatinX”. The only reason this term exists is because the wokies will fling themselves headlong into any artificially contrived word fad if someone says it’s for inclusion. Then in 5 years it will get flung off the euphemism treadmill at high velocity, only to be replaced by yet another dumb thing that nobody wanted or asked for. The end. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-latinx/938464/106 "2021-04-08T19:10:56Z")
Perhaps the most basic problem is that it lumps many distinct cultures together by the language they speak. While bizarrely excluding the originators of the language (Spaniards) from said group. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-latinx/938464.md?page=5)