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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by rcoveson on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @11:07PM (#31092376)
German is an English word that English speakers use to describe Germans. It doesn't have any etymological relationship with the word that Germans use to describe themselves.

Latino and Latina are Spanish words that American English speakers have adopted in the last ~80 years due to the significant intermingling of Spanish and English speakers. Their use spans a spectrum of Spanish-only speakers, bilingual speakers, and English-only speakers. Not only does the English word "Latino" (my eyes roll typing that) have an etymological relationship with the Spanish word "Latino", their etymologies haven't even diverged. English speakers who took a Spanish class in high school even pronounce Latino in the Spanish way, "lah-TEE-noh" instead of "luh-TEE-no", because they think of it as a Spanish word.

Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by lukeschlather on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @12:15AM (#31092739)
Latinx is a Spanglish word. You seem offended by the very existence of Spanglish. Personally as a gringo who was born in a majority-hispanic neighborhood in Texas Spanglish is my culture.
Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by mbg721 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @11:13PM (#31092407)
I had thought the use of "Latino/Latina" was a clumsy (and very recent) substitute for "Hispanic", but so that it would also include Brazilians.