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There's considerable debate about the -x ending, both in this community and in the Latin American community. Some like it for its sense of gender inclusion, but it doesn't naturally fit with the languages it's applied to and some see it akin to colonial rule over their language(s).
I don't have a dog in this fight, as I'm not from any of the above communities. But some people feel very strongly about this topic and if you're unaware of that context, you might end up in the middle of an argument you didn't go looking for.
Yea, the intention's good, but as a native Romanian speaker (same language family), I gotta say, that shit ugly. We need smth else. It's super tricky with gendered languages
Isn't there an attempt to repurpose @ for gender-neutral? Looks awkward, too
The @ is just a fancy a, so i don't think it's a good idea, generally i don't think it's a good idea to use any letter or symbol that doesn't match at all our languages, it just feel to forced and most of those "solutions" include a group but exclude another big group: people with dyslexia, but also those with dysorthographia at times;
My take is: we ditch one of the 2 genres and we have only one, or we add a thirdy one with a nicer sound than shit like -x, -ə or -u which is kinda hard tbh, maybe we can take a letter from some other alphabet?