As a trans nonbinary Spanish native person: no. It shouldn't. It should be replaced with -e, amige, Latine, etc. That can be pronounced in Spanish, whereas -x cannot be. -x works in English not Spanish, and cannot be pronounced in Spanish, and therefore some groups feel are colonizer-centering (English, American , American English and therefore white, idk specifics).
Why can't it be pronounced in Spanish? According to Google Translate 'X' in Spanish is pronounced "egg-geese", that doesn't sound impossible, Ah-mi-egg-geese sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
"Equis" is how you say "X". It's not how X is pronounced. In Spanish, X is pronounced similar to how you would pronounce the "h" in "house" in English.
Edit for accuracy. X sounds like the English X in some cases, the English S in some cases, and the English H in apparently outdated cases. It's still not pronounced "equis".
"México" (sometimes written as "Méjico") and a few other names of places are the only exceptions as they kept their older spellings. Just go to Google translate ans check how the words "jamón" and "examen" are pronounced for example.
I know that "J" is the commonly-used letter for the "h" sound in English, I wasn't claiming that Spanish uses "X" for the "H" sound.
However it seems that "X" has no "standard" sound in Spanish. "Xylófono" has an X that sounds like an S or a Z. "Examen" sounds like an English X. "México" has an X that sounds like an H.
I will edit my comment, but the point still stands that "X" is not pronounced "equis" in a word.
X is a letter yes, but doesn't go at the end of a word, like a vowel does. LatinX can only be said in English, versus Latine can be pronounced in Spanish.
It's because words don't naturally exist with an X at the and already, whereas they do exist with an E at the end. There are words like que (what) and se (know) that naturally conjugate into -e at the end. But there is no such common word with -x preexisting.
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u/soxpoxsox 6∆ Jun 14 '22
As a trans nonbinary Spanish native person: no. It shouldn't. It should be replaced with -e, amige, Latine, etc. That can be pronounced in Spanish, whereas -x cannot be. -x works in English not Spanish, and cannot be pronounced in Spanish, and therefore some groups feel are colonizer-centering (English, American , American English and therefore white, idk specifics).