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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].


Latin[ao] sounds like Spanish slang for "latinized"... I could actually imagine this catching on more than latinx.


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!


Oh dear god no, any random passerby could say something requiring exponential time to parse. :P


Thank you for finally providing a definition.




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