Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Everyone is equally ignorant
ZH mocks a college that replaced alumnus by alumnx.
The x business is hopelessly stupid, but the ZH article, and its source at College Fix, are equally stupid.
Alumnus (pl alumni) is strictly male, not 'common'. Alumna (pl alumnae) is female. Before gender-neutrality was the rage, colleges were extremely persnickety about using both terms separately.
Actual Spanish speakers have a better way of doing the gender-neutral shit, at least in print. Instead of saying 'hermanos y hermanas', the modern version is 'herman@s'. Nice graphic merging of a and o, not unlike the old scribal abbreviations. I don't know how it's pronounced.
Labels: Language update
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