Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by woooooo on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:46PM (#34041162)

The kicker for me is if we want to anglicize Spanish because we know better than them... we could just say Latin! It's already a word! But it doesn't come with ingroup signaling and so here we are..

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by shrimp_emoji on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:40PM (#34041993)

Right?!

Kublai was on this train 700 years ago: https://youtu.be/FJUueJzLr54?t=169

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by el-salvador on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:53PM (#34042167)

When you read Latinx in Spanish it reads as "Latín Equis".

"Equis" is a word we use when talking about something or someone irrelevant. Like the x in an algebra formula.

https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=equ...

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by soundnote on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:04AM (#34061754)

Wait, what does that mean wrt the Dos Equis beer then? Is the most interesting man in the world actually irrelevant?

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by hedora on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:46AM (#34062465)

I think you meant most interesting person in the world.

Geez.

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by el-salvador on Thursday December 22, 2022 @10:07PM (#34101934)

TIL The beer was first named Siglo XX which stands for 20th century. The name Dos Equis later came about from the roman numeral for twenty, which is XX.

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by umanwizard on Monday December 19, 2022 @04:55AM (#34050313)

In my understanding “Latin” also includes people from Latin Europe, (France, Italy, Spain, etc.), so it’s a bit less precise.

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