{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "OHHHH, the \u201cChi\u201d in \u201cChicano\u201d was originally the same as the \u201cxi\u201d in \u201cMexico\u201d, I just got that.\n There\u2019s an alternate universe...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/156476890448/", "html": "

kontextmaschine:

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OHHHH, the \u201cChi\u201d in \u201cChicano\u201d was originally the same as the \u201cxi\u201d in \u201cMexico\u201d, I just got that.

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There\u2019s an alternate universe out there where people are earnestly typing \u201cXcanx\u201d

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I mean I say that as something to laugh at the -x terminal

But like \u201cAmerican English replaced Latinate gender-marking terminals with -x under the influence of this development in American Spanish\u201d, that is totally a thing that could happen

EXCEPT

1. how do you pronounce that?

2. who\u2019s to say it sticks

remember \u201cLatin@\u201d?

that was the year, remember when tumblr was still bothering to cite \u201cthird sex\u201d traditions for legitimacy, the discourse that requiring SRS (then \u201cbottom surgery\u201d, then nothing) was \u201cmandatory sterilization\u201d

(OUR third sex tradition was castrati, no one brought that up)

that was what, ONE presidential reelection ago?

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