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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by cjbgkagh on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @04:37AM (#31094233)
Latin-x. Which of course makes it super hard to apply to all the other gendered words in Spanish. At least make it a different vowel like latini.
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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by ngc248 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @06:49AM (#31095029)
Oh i thought it was pronounced like how we pronounce lynx ... la-tuh-nks
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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by cjbgkagh on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @08:19AM (#31095796)
Definitely ends in ɛks. But that’s an English x being grafted on to the end of the word. For a Spanish x it ends in eh-kees for equis the Spanish pronunciation of x. I personally find it rather amusing how culturally insensitive the ‘culturally sensitive’ are.
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