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My job has made me so used to calling people "sir" or "ma'am", but wtf to I say to an NB?

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[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Mx. is often used as a courtesy title or honorific in lieu of Mr or Ms in writing (as there's an Emacs command to make it easier), but it runs into the Latinx issue of being a bit of a pain to pronounce (mix? Em-ecks? Mish?). It's not a direct alternative to sir or ma'am, but title systems are archaic to the point where almost nobody knows what they are.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Wiktionary lists two pronunciations (like mix or like mucks) and treats it as potentially short for Mixter.

[–] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Latinx isn't hard to pronounce, the x as in "equis (𝑥), the algebraic concept" is an e as in egg.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Its equivalent

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, just like how every other word in Spanish uses /ˈɛks/ to represent ⟨x⟩

[–] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well no, but in that's how the x is used in the term latinx. X is commonly used as a substitute for J in Mexican Spanish, but that's a different topic.