Current Events > When do you think they will start trying to cancel the Spanish language?

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The language is based around masculine or feminine. I figured it was next on the list to be canceled.

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Very stupid take.

It's more realistic that Spanish becomes the dominant language and English gets canceled.

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Wii_Shaker posted...

Very stupid take.

It's more realistic that Spanish becomes the dominant language and English gets canceled.

How? English allows for more varied pronouns. In Spanish you are male or female.

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It'll just be modified to use X instead of a or o at the end of a word.

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The language was also used by the Spanish conquerors, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was banned eventually, and the native mayan languages take their place? lol

That's not funny.
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Zack_Attackv1 posted...

That's not funny.

I was being serious.

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Monolith1676 posted...

The language is based around masculine or feminine. I figured it was next on the list to be canceled.

Ive been wondering for a few years now how the spanish nonbinary community even speaks lol. I dont know a lot of spanish but I do know literally everything is masculine and feminine

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French is pretty gendered as well
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English and Spanish are both languages of imperialist colonizers and perpetuators of genocide.

Were going to cancel both languages and revive the aboriginal languages of the Americas.

Viva La Azteka!

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The term gender comes from linguistics and was only used to describe people in the 60s/70s in America and spread from there. The idea that gender in terms of linguistics is somehow related is kind of sad.

Just as an example for those who don't understand. The word feminine in Spanish is feminino, a masculine word ending. Obviously the gender labels aren't related to the words meaning. These are linguistic labels, not some kind of gender code in the modern Western society sense of the word. And some gendered languages have 5 genders. It's just really unfortunate the labels are what they are, because they were added later, not inherent to the languages.

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TomNook20 posted...

It'll just be modified to use X instead of a or o at the end of a word.

Or "@". I saw that a lot in Spain.

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They've already started with their dumb latinx shit.
Querx Un burritx por favor
Muchxs Gracix

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Monolith1676 posted...

The language is based around masculine or feminine. I figured it was next on the list to be canceled.

Yeah, also, the word for the color black is a derogatory word in EnglishIm sure eventually theyll say a new word for the color black in Spanish needs to replace the old one.

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P4wn4g3 posted...

They've already started with their dumb latinx shit.
Querx Un burritx por favor
Muchxs Gracix

It only really works in English and written Spanish but not spoken Spanish.

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russian is also heavily based on gender

oh wait but that was cancelled decades ago, nevermind

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The assistant teacher in my Spanish class said in high school said there was this growing movement in Spain to use feminine forms of masculine (mostly replacing El with La) things which usually led to the confusion of old people

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N3xtG3nGam3r posted...

Yeah, also, the word for the color black is a derogatory word in EnglishIm sure eventually theyll say a new word for the color black in Spanish needs to replace the old one.

Do you really, honestly believe this?

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I always have one big complaint towards the Spanish language. A hurricane is called "huracan" when you use it in sentence, the word itself is male. Central and South America keep naming some of them after female/girls. I don't fucking get why no one ever tells me either.


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As I mentioned earlier grammatical gender is a concept attached onto the language by linguists. It doesn't have to do with the modern way we use gender. A word in Spanish having a masculine or feminine ending does not mean it is related to that gender in the modern social sense of the word. Again see feminino.

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ssjevot posted...

As I mentioned earlier grammatical gender is a concept attached onto the language by linguists. It doesn't have to do with the modern way we use gender. A word in Spanish having a masculine or feminine ending does not mean it is related to that gender in the modern social sense of the word. Again see feminino.

I can't speak for spanish (though I imagine it's at least similar) but in french you also have feminine/masculine nouns. And they clearly have something to do with gender, because if you use an adjective to describe a noun, the adjective ending often changes based on the gender of the noun. and it changes in the same way it would if you were using that adjective to describe a female/male person as well

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kirbymuncher posted...

I can't speak for spanish (though I imagine it's at least similar) but in french you also have feminine/masculine nouns. And they clearly have something to do with gender, because if you use an adjective to describe a noun, the adjective ending often changes based on the gender of the noun. and it changes in the same way it would if you were using that adjective to describe a female/male person as well

That's where the naming came from for grammatical gender. The problem is words are arbitrarily one gender or the other, there is no consistency between languages, and the number of genders also varies (1-5, some say up to 8 in some languages). You end up with stuff like Polish having country names for countries that are feminine, masculine, or neuter and if you tried to find some kind of pattern based on social gender you would go mad. It's simply an aspect of language that got stuck with an unfortunate name. And even French has words that are clearly masculine/feminine socially, but have the opposite gender grammatically.

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Me gusta putas latinas

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Guide posted...

Do you really, honestly believe this?

No...buuuut, who really knows with people nowadays.

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kirbymuncher posted...

I can't speak for spanish (though I imagine it's at least similar) but in french you also have feminine/masculine nouns. And they clearly have something to do with gender, because if you use an adjective to describe a noun, the adjective ending often changes based on the gender of the noun. and it changes in the same way it would if you were using that adjective to describe a female/male person as well

Spanish has gendered nouns too (the adjectives only match the nouns) and there is really no rhyme or reason to which ones are masculine and which are feminine. It's like they just flipped a coin.

SauI_Goodman posted...

Me gustan las putas latinas

Fixed your grammar.

Stupid brainworms topic from troll who knows nothing about language or grammatical gender

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