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jxramos
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I remember when I first saw latinx, I thought it meant something about a Latin mixer or Latin cross exchange, or cross pollination. I had no idea it was a regex metacharacter for `a` or `o`, essentially latin[ao].
yosito
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Latin[ao] sounds like Spanish slang for "latinized"... I could actually imagine this catching on more than latinx.
jmcz
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It also makes more logical sense.
I don't think changing the language is necessary, but if we're adding regex to English. COUNT ME IN!
taneq
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Oh dear god no, any random passerby could say something requiring exponential time to parse. :P
disgruntledphd2
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Thank you for finally providing a definition.
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