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    Jun 01, 2021 4 minutes
    RICHARD RODRIGUEZ

    LATELY I HAVE READ ABOUT Latinx, a noun, a term that is supposed to name people like me without naming people like me. I saw it in The New York Times.At some universities, there are academic departments devoted to Latinx studies. I am old enough to be Xtinct, but that is not what Latinx means. I am American (in the provincial sense of that word) because my parents were from Latin America (in the hemispheric sense of that word). That is what Latinx means.

    I have yet to hear anyone profess to be Latinx out loud. I am curious about how the noun is pronounced. In English,as in otherwise you would get . The plural, in English—Latinxs—puts me in mind of the inane toss of kisses at the close of an email: XXX.

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