tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post7742710713456316930..comments2024-03-29T09:31:08.148-05:00Comments on Althouse: "Where and by whom 'Latinx' is used has helped spur the complaints that it may alienate working-class Latino communities (especially those that speak Spanish)..."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-12376562408280132382020-12-21T10:40:45.142-06:002020-12-21T10:40:45.142-06:00May as well incorporate Asianx into the language. ...May as well incorporate Asianx into the language. The Chinese, Japanese, Cambodians, Indians, Indonesians, Koreans, Thais and Vietnamese are all the same, too.PMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15216578936157701583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33811074765526097322020-12-20T23:32:49.247-06:002020-12-20T23:32:49.247-06:00Not quite OT is that in the saga of Jeffrey Toobin...Not quite OT is that in the saga of Jeffrey Toobin's recent untergang (somebody should do something with this in the faux subtitling), the pièce de résistance is the NY Times's straight-faced multiple references to Masha as "Mx Gessen"!Hanoi Paris Hiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01482859910580627570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51133715976357254472020-12-20T21:37:30.045-06:002020-12-20T21:37:30.045-06:00There are certain Spanish words in the Spanish lan...There are certain Spanish words in the Spanish language that aptly describe those who promote use of the word "Latinx." Such as <i>pendejo, boludo, pelotudo, gillipollas, tonto,lelo.</i>RichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-77890344648536044062020-12-20T20:01:33.125-06:002020-12-20T20:01:33.125-06:00I stop listening when someone uses that word. If y...I stop listening when someone uses that word. If you refer to the "Latinx community," it's pretty clear that you have no idea what you're talking about.Freeman Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202310075717963694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81335825942682606892020-12-20T18:05:14.874-06:002020-12-20T18:05:14.874-06:00linguistically, x is not part of the way IndoEurop...linguistically, x is not part of the way IndoEuropeans end words. Indeed, "X" has a connotation of illicit sex.<br />As a whole, Latin American communities are family oriented. Trans and gay folks are part of the family, no big deal: But the agenda of pushing the sexual agenda of the radicals is seen as a way to destroy the traditional family.<br /><br />The inability of the elites to see this shows they are indeed in a cultural bubble and need a lesson in basic anthropology to understand that family, not government, is the first place people go to for support, both emotional and economic, in times of trouble.Nancy Reyeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14910134058143426327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75702427305597846702020-12-20T17:58:40.384-06:002020-12-20T17:58:40.384-06:00Bruce,
Absolutely I could have died. If my brothe...Bruce,<br /><br />Absolutely I could have died. If my brother in law had taken my 10 year old son for a ride like that, in a boat that was built around too much motor and then had that motor replaced with a much bigger one I would have been really pissed too. Not to mention it had been designed for one time suicide use 20 years previous. <br /><br />At my son for going in it after being forbidden and at mybil for taking him after told not to.<br /><br />My mother was absolutely right. <br /><br />I remember howling down the lake at 80-100mph, in the early morning calm but still with other boats around. Neither of us having much forward vision because of the engine. The boat flexing, twisting and bending like it was held together with rubber bands.<br /><br />I was scared shitless the whole time. But it was the kind of scared you get as you go over the top on a rolly coaster.<br /><br />I was 10 years old. I was immortal. <br /><br />Or thought I was at the time. <br /><br />I wake up some nights wondering why I am alive.<br /><br />I need to go look at the video but wasn't there a history channel program on your friend's boat? I remember seeing a program on it somewhere. <br /><br />John Henry John henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13529920006532904660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-4039154730681772582020-12-20T16:58:29.383-06:002020-12-20T16:58:29.383-06:00Of course, "Latin" (and Latino, Latina, ...Of course, "Latin" (and Latino, Latina, La-tincks, Latin-Ex, etc.) are all themselves a rather imperialistic imposition. Latin refers to Rome. And, with the exception of modern-day Argentina, none of these countries or people are of Italian descent.<br /><br />Hispanic at least has the accurate descriptive element of referring to the language of their ancestry, derived from Spain. But even then it is offensive in treating a whole slew of different peoples and cultures as a single entity. In fact, many of these groups despise each other and don't like white people's lumping of them together. But to the progressive, a Puerto Rican and Cuban and Mexican are all essentially the same.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07575021285669012791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60388208324754804872020-12-20T16:47:30.613-06:002020-12-20T16:47:30.613-06:00Why is Chuckx still here?Why is Chuckx still here?Marcus Bresslerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04324813856647190727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61500936071827702112020-12-20T16:42:21.998-06:002020-12-20T16:42:21.998-06:00Surprise, surprise -- the privileged white progres...Surprise, surprise -- the privileged white progressive thugs who have imposed their tyranny of language on others, while telling Black folks how offended they must be at the progressives' latest targets, are racist.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07575021285669012791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27768094524020786142020-12-20T15:44:46.355-06:002020-12-20T15:44:46.355-06:00One of my friends is of Mexican descent, and I rem...One of my friends is of Mexican descent, and I remember bringing up the term LatinX to him probably 2-3 years ago, to see what he thought of it. He had never even heard it. He thought it was stupid. We pronounced it La-teen-ix, kinda like Kleenex. We both thought it sounded like some sort of sanitary or cleaning product that you might ask someone to pick up at the store for you. "Honey we're out of Latinx could you grab some at the store." My friend has now taken to calling it Latin Ten. And still thinks it is stupid. For what it is worth my friend grew up speaking English in the home.The Vault Dwellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16446904205700574185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-12727065255157889942020-12-20T15:31:03.996-06:002020-12-20T15:31:03.996-06:00“My mother used to get REALLY pissed when he would...“My mother used to get REALLY pissed when he would take me for a ride. I was forbidden! To go. But you don't think that's gonna stop a 10 year old boy do you? Booming down lake George at 100mph in a death trap, as my father called it, was worth any amount of castigation. I even got to drive it once but not at any speed to speak of.”<br /><br />You can die. My partner accompanied a good friend up to Lake Tahoe in the 1980 to watch this girl’s father (Lee Taylor) race. Except he pushed it a bit too much, and the boat exploded, killing him. Years later, she was talking to the father of her second husband, and it turned out he had built the boat. His story was that Lee was “a wild man”, but wasn’t supposed to take it much above 300 mph that day. He may have exceeded 400 mph. But that was always his problem, pushing things a bit too much. He was, at the time, trying to recapture the water speed record he had held for a decade, and instead of a jet engine, he went with a rocket engine. The record he was trying to break was 317.6 mph, had already done 333, unofficially, and was hoping for 350 that day. <br /><br />Here’s the crash (I watched It twice to see if I could see my partner there, but couldn’t). <br />https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UIk-tQDIZqg<br />Bruce Haydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10815293023158025662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78163965710342362072020-12-20T14:43:49.011-06:002020-12-20T14:43:49.011-06:00The term is doomed? Good. It should be jettisone...The term is doomed? Good. It should be jettisoned to the ash heap of cyber-history, with a knife stuck in its heart. That appendage ignores the development of many Romance languages and forces capitulation of Hispanics, Latin Americans, and Europeans who weren't consulted.<br /><br />jvbjohn burgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04821797286120403905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64750864119610162622020-12-20T14:03:57.001-06:002020-12-20T14:03:57.001-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Joe Biden, America's Putinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05802605309593881825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-10162073925588437642020-12-20T13:16:30.164-06:002020-12-20T13:16:30.164-06:00"Pancho Barnes, of the famed Happy Bottom Rid...<i>"Pancho Barnes, of the famed Happy Bottom Riding Club..."</i><br /><br />Don't even get me started...too easy : )Joe Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17691714715049323034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-12991087101629669722020-12-20T13:09:13.702-06:002020-12-20T13:09:13.702-06:00Let’s cancel everyone who’s used the term. Let’s cancel everyone who’s used the term. Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307552957596862754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5345615317804294142020-12-20T12:50:11.443-06:002020-12-20T12:50:11.443-06:00Pancho Barnes, of the famed Happy Bottom Riding Cl...Pancho Barnes, of the famed Happy Bottom Riding Club Near Edwards AFB was a woman.<br /><br />Pancho is a common nickname for Francisco in Spanish. <br /><br />Like Jack for John or Chuck for Charles. <br /><br />John HenryDarkislandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11179670958768611172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83953687842248826402020-12-20T12:29:30.910-06:002020-12-20T12:29:30.910-06:00I noticed this on a subway poster.
Something abou...<br />I noticed this on a subway poster.<br /><br />Something about how the state wanted us to be "sanx" or "segurx"<br /><br />Somebody who just arrived from Xochimilco would probably think we are all crazy.<br /><br />Lurker21https://www.blogger.com/profile/05692740653467688670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75031464516715357372020-12-20T12:06:40.630-06:002020-12-20T12:06:40.630-06:00My Cubana wife hates it and thinks it's stupid...My Cubana wife hates it and thinks it's stupid. <br /><br />As do I. <br /><br />Besides... "Cubanx" makes no sense. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317934610635399318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19180037693343546032020-12-20T11:54:23.384-06:002020-12-20T11:54:23.384-06:00My uncle Bob used to have an unlimited hydroplane ...My uncle Bob used to have an unlimited hydroplane built, but never delivered, by Ventnor boat works in NJ for the Chinese to be used as a kamikaze boat against the Japanese.<br /><br />Still on the water. <br /><br />https://youtu.be/Kx62bkjSCXI<br /><br />The reason this is on topic is because instead of the pussfied Packard it raced with, he had this ginormous Hispano-Suiza aircraft engine in it.<br /><br />The red hood in the video was kept in the garage. <br /><br />My mother used to get REALLY pissed when he would take me for a ride. I was forbidden! To go. But you don't think that's gonna stop a 10 year old boy do you? Booming down lake George at 100mph in a death trap, as my father called it, was worth any amount of castigation. I even got to drive it once but not at any speed to speak of. <br /><br />John Henry <br /><br /><br />John henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13529920006532904660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-86036697461753371672020-12-20T11:51:35.951-06:002020-12-20T11:51:35.951-06:00Latinx is a word enlightened English-speaking whit...<i>Latinx</i> is a word enlightened English-speaking white academics invented and imposed on Latinos in order to save them from the sexism of their own language -- in other words, a perfect modern example of colonialism. Earnest Prolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784404737843553158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-89561369998957696782020-12-20T11:48:27.253-06:002020-12-20T11:48:27.253-06:00All Indo-European languages had three genders at o...All Indo-European languages had three genders at one time. Yes, including Old English. Most of the modern languages have retained at least two. The grammatical genders have no logical connection to human gender, except for obviously gendered words like man, woman, aunt, uncle. For example, “River” is feminine in Russian and masculine in German. My Croatian professor earnestly explained to me that “life” (zhivot) was feminine because life comes from women. I had to ponder why, to those souless Germans, “life” is a neuter noun.<br /><br />It is thought that the gender distinction originated as a marker to distinguish living from inanimate things.Njallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13618517359029420936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25409637118024534322020-12-20T11:42:24.484-06:002020-12-20T11:42:24.484-06:00Rid-X for the Democratx.Rid-X for the Democratx.Bunkypotatoheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02488905052143725904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72387287084247334502020-12-20T11:39:12.868-06:002020-12-20T11:39:12.868-06:00@tcross,
We're taught language and grammar by...@tcross,<br /><br /><i>We're taught language and grammar by our betters until such time as our betters determine that the language and grammer they've been teaching us is a great crime.<br /><br />Cue Ebonics.</i><br /><br />You know why there are only 49 contestants in the Miss Ebonics pageant?<br /><br />'Cause they couldn't get anyone to wear the "Idaho" banner.<br />YoungHegelianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02723316130501823658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-30282860135864187072020-12-20T11:37:37.406-06:002020-12-20T11:37:37.406-06:00"The pronoun bull shit will never catch on ei...<i>"The pronoun bull shit will never catch on either."</i><br /><br />I have predicted here before that if Biden gets in, his cabinet will list their pronouns on their official media (web pages, Twitter, etc.).<br /><br /><i>"I like Los Panchos too."</i><br /><br />In my neck of the woods, Los Panchos makes fantastic Mexican food; especially their burritos : )<br />Joe Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17691714715049323034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20217060363159513342020-12-20T11:34:50.336-06:002020-12-20T11:34:50.336-06:00Kiko and the Lavender Moon is exquisite.Kiko and the Lavender Moon is exquisite.Imanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212729241514444338noreply@blogger.com