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Now you can give a historical precedent to people who don't like words such as "Latinx".
Read the whole article and can't find anything in there that relates the Manx language to the gender-neutral latinx/latine movement other than the fact that both words end in "nx" (which plenty of other words already do; jinx, lynx, larynx, etc.). Manx doesn't seem to have gendered words beyond 3rd person pronouns, and they're not even from the same langulanguage families (gaelic vs latin, though "Manx" as a word come from Norse).
This feels like a weird thing to bring up on this article.
I know, that's the point.
So you're... Just trolling then? Trolling here seems even more pointless than usual.
Not trolling. Just reminding that "Latinx" is not the first language/ethnicity/nationality to end with X, and Manx came up "naturally". This is like finding examples of singular "they" in history.
But... manx isn't a word in Spanish?
I don't speak Spanish so I can't tell but Latinx appears in English text.