Iâm not familiar with Latine, but Latinx seems to be a term that was adopted with good intentions, but actually hated by the people it ostensibly describes.
Google says there are 171k words in the English language, so if you use four truly random ones, thatâs about 5.5 E20 combos. Is that really not enough?
Latinx and Latine are both gender-neutral versions of Latino and Latina, whose -o and -a endings correspond to the masculine and feminine forms traditionally assigned to nouns and adjectives in the Spanish language. Although Latino is often used as the default gender-neutral form (both in Spanish and English), the words Latinx and Latine are used by those who want to avoid the association with gender altogether, as a way to avoid gendered language when itâs not relevant or specifically for use when referring to nonbinary people or groups in which more than one gender is represented. Latinx is more well-known among English speakers. Latine is sometimes preferred, especially when communicating in Spanish, for various reasons, such as being more natural to pronounce or to form plurals with. However, not everyone with this heritage uses Latine or Latinx, with many continuing to use Latino as a gender-neutral default. Additionally, some people instead prefer to identify with terms that indicate their heritage more specifically, such as Mexican American, among many, many others
The push for using Latinx comes from trans activists and their allies. It works when addressing certain communities but may be counter-productive in addressing the general population, if your priority is winning elections.
Native speakers only know about 25,000 to 30,000 words and realistically if your password comes up like Esoteric-Conceptually-Maroon-Arrogant, you are probably going to smash the retry button even though you know all those words. There are probably only a few thousand words that people are going to find acceptable.
In all honesty Iâd never actually use âcorrect horse battery staple,â and I use a password manager with strong passwords and adding 2FA on things that really matter, but the math behind using 4-5 random, non-sentence words seems pretty reasonable for sites that allow passwords that long, and they are more easily memorized.
Irish breakfast tea is affable and pleasant and English breakfast tea is obnoxious and haughty and steals cultural artifacts from indigenous people around the world.
Waiting in Dunkinâ drive-thru this morning and the car in front of me has to open their door because their window wouldnât roll down. Iâm thinking to myself as I chuckle, oh that sucks itâs fucking cold out. And of course the winter gods are laughing at me because my window was frozen shut too and I had to do the same thing ordering and grabbing my coffee from the Dunkinâ employee.
Merry Christmas Unstuck. As ever in Australia, we live in the future and it has just ticked over to 00:00 Christmas Day. I canât sleep. Peace on Earth and goodwill to all posters. The forecast today is 90 degrees, by the way, rising to 104 on Tuesday. Good luck with that whole polar vortex thing.