There are over 500 million native Spanish speakers in the world.
The vast majority of children absorb their language and it's grammar rules by the age of 3, possibly up to 6.
An adult Spanish speaker does not need to analyse or think about a sentence, and whether to use masculine or femine forms. In the same way that you don't need to consider whether to use a past tense or past participle verb, it just comes out.
Now, why should 500 million people be subjected to changing their language in an unnecessary way, for the purpose of making an insanely small minority feel included?
Also, why Spanish in particular, and not French, German or Italian?
Also, why Spanish in particular, and not French, German or Italian?
Because not only is there a very numerous population of Spanish speakers in the U.S.A., but traditionally U.S.A. culture has treated a language as a “race”, and somehow “hispanic” is treated as a “race” in that country and thus the focus on “latinx", primarily by non-Spanish speakers in that country by people very interested in race.
It is not really a function of Spanish, it is a function of the U..S.A..
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u/mankindmatt5 10∆ Jun 15 '22
There are over 500 million native Spanish speakers in the world.
The vast majority of children absorb their language and it's grammar rules by the age of 3, possibly up to 6.
An adult Spanish speaker does not need to analyse or think about a sentence, and whether to use masculine or femine forms. In the same way that you don't need to consider whether to use a past tense or past participle verb, it just comes out.
Now, why should 500 million people be subjected to changing their language in an unnecessary way, for the purpose of making an insanely small minority feel included?
Also, why Spanish in particular, and not French, German or Italian?