• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    “Las y los trabajadores se están radicalizando.”

    What about the nonbinary workers? Les trabajadores?

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      4 months ago

      “Les” doesn’t exist. Just use “Los trabajadores”. It means everyone, doesn’t matter their gender.

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            4 months ago

            Not really that much of a difference honestly. My point still stands. Language is made up. We can use whatever words we want to use to convey the meaning we want as long as the people talking agree with the meaning

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              4 months ago

              You are correct but missing a key point: Language is indeed made up, but it works because we agree on how those made up bits are meant to be used. That’s why there have dictionaries and we are taught languages in school. So yeah, you can use any sound and word you like to communicate, but that doesn’t change the fact that the noises you are making are not “real” (as in with a communally agreed meaning).