Singular “they” has been used since the 1600s at least. Neopronouns are like xim and xer. Which I have never seen anyone use in the wild, honestly. And I’m in the QUILTBAG as well.
Latinx was such a stupid choice. Let’s take gendered words with a vowel at the end and replace the vowel with a hard consonant. It makes it so much harder to say and sounds wrong.
They should have picked a more sensible sound that flows like the original words.
It’s common for neopronoun users to not use them “in the wild” because they expect to be disrespected. Often they’ll have a set of standard pronouns that they use normally and only pse neopronouns in spaces they know to be affirming
Singular “they” has been used since the 1600s at least. Neopronouns are like xim and xer. Which I have never seen anyone use in the wild, honestly. And I’m in the QUILTBAG as well.
I’ve seen e/eir/ey used in old scifi stories from the aughts.
I guess that doesn’t really count as “in the wild” though.
Which is why I said it’s usually a reference to more than one person.
Even though it isn’t a neopronoun, for the most part the same applies to “Latinx”.
Latinx was such a stupid choice. Let’s take gendered words with a vowel at the end and replace the vowel with a hard consonant. It makes it so much harder to say and sounds wrong.
They should have picked a more sensible sound that flows like the original words.
It may have been inspired by “x” representing an unknown variable like you would see in a math equation, so in that context, it kind of makes sense.
Yeah I understand why x looks good on paper. As soon as you try to use in in spoken dialog the flaws become apparent. It’s clearly not going to work.
Latine is much better, -e for neutral gender has some decent traction
It’s common for neopronoun users to not use them “in the wild” because they expect to be disrespected. Often they’ll have a set of standard pronouns that they use normally and only pse neopronouns in spaces they know to be affirming