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Experts Recommend Calling A Hispanic Person 'Latine' If You Want To Get Punched In The Face
2024-04-13
[Bee] BERKELEY, CA — Speaking from the heart of higher learning at UC Berkley, sociology experts have issued formal guidelines that Hispanic individuals should always be called the gender-neutral term "latine" if you want to get punched right in the face.

The term "latine" has gained popularity in recent weeks thanks in part to an article in Axios in which the author reportedly made up the term as an elaborate prank.

"Latinx is an outdated term, as everyone was making fun of us and giving us wedgies for using it," said Gender-Ethnic Studies Professor Edwina Skuzz, while holding a bag of frozen peas on her swollen eye socket. "Latine is the new official term for persons of Hispanic origin that will help you avoid offensive gendered language."

"Unfortunately, it will not help you avoid getting punched in the face."

"I dare you to call me 'Latine' one more time," said José Gonzales, a farmer in Ranco Encantada, as he pulled up his sleeves and prepared to punch our reporter in the face.

Critics are reportedly calling on the Latine people to "calm down," imploring them that violence is not the answer.

At publishing time, experts clarified that Leftists should probably stop talking to Hispanics altogether.
Posted by:Frank G

#16  Talking with a Swiss woman one time: “ what language do you speak in Switzerland?”
(Suddenly rather agitated) “ I don’t know what language! It hasn’t got a name!”
Posted by: Ululating Platypus   2024-04-13 20:08  

#15  The Swiss in Grisons Canton still speak Romansch, a derivative of Latin from remnant Romans left in Cis-Alpine Gaul after the sacking of the Western Roman Empire from the Vandal/Gothic invasions of the middle fifth century, and the final collapse to Germanic Odoacer in 476.

Wiki cite: "Romansh is one of the descendant languages of the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire, which by the 5th century AD replaced the Celtic and Raetic languages previously spoken in the area. Romansh retains a small number of words from these languages. "
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2024-04-13 15:23  

#14  Considering that the bulk of hispanic types have no problem with and even prefer 'latino', what this is really about is, "the "elites" feel they have the authority to tell you how you should identify and feel about yourself.
Your own ideas don't even come into it.
Posted by: ed in texas   2024-04-13 12:40  

#13  Garbage news from higher education.
Posted by: Dale   2024-04-13 12:11  

#12  Is latrine plural?
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2024-04-13 10:56  

#11  When satire becomes good advice.

Non such-and-such people learning that language is the entire history of human interaction, right down to the creation of writing.

My Parisian French Instructor, "I'm not sure exactly what they say in New Orleans, but it sure sounds better than Canadian French."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-04-13 10:12  

#10  It's hilarious as some of her professors were very racist and looked down on a 'non-Latino' teaching spanish...ignorant of their own history:p
Posted by: Silentbrick   2024-04-13 08:22  

#9  Hispania the Roman designation for the Iberian peninsula.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-04-13 08:08  

#8  It makes me laugh all the time when the hispanics here in Texas are shocked at how well my wife speaks Spanish (She teaches it for a college, and to many a student's surprise when they learn she teaches SPANISH and not street Mexican:D, no easy A). She often points out to them that her family is Italian and that Spanish and Italian are dialects of Latin.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2024-04-13 07:50  

#7  ^You mean like from "Blood drinking kikes" to "Genocidal Zionists"?😀
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-04-13 04:54  

#6  The hide of these poseurs -“we’ve changed your people’s name- deal with it”
Posted by: Ululating Platypus   2024-04-13 03:58  

#5  ^But their right to be called "Latin" supperseeds - the mostly "Native American" from Latin America - by orders of magnitude.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-04-13 02:25  

#4  They speak a debased dialect far from the original language of old, of course. Or so Cicero and Seneca would no doubt say.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-04-13 02:15  

#3  ^yea, but what about Italians?! You know, the heirs of Rome!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-04-13 02:03  

#2  Brazilians are not Hispanics, being descended from Portugal, Grom. They don’t even speak Spanish, though Portuguese is also descended from Latin.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-04-13 02:01  

#1  If you call "Hispanics" "Latine", how do you call Italian-Americans?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-04-13 01:33  

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