Decolonization is for gringos. People who are proud of their heritage and culture don’t put up with it.
At a conference on the Spanish language held in March, Buenos Aires-born journalist Martín Caparrós proposed renaming the language “Ñamericano” to remove its colonial origins.
However, the director of the 46-member Spanish Royal Academy, Santiago Muñoz Machado, was asked Monday to consider the writer’s proposal. He flatly rejected the idea.
“It’s a witticism, which is fine as a witticism,” Muñoz Machado told Spanish news agency EFE.
The Spanish Royal Academy frequently finds itself embroiled in debates about “inclusive” Spanish, which might mean addressing a group of men and women with the feminine “todas” instead of the male “todos” to mean “everyone.”
Last year, Muñoz Machado dismissed as a “political manifestation” an emerging trend to make the language gender-neutral — for instance, replacing “niño” (boy) and niña (girl) with “niñe” (child).
“It is not part of the grammar, it is not orthodox, and probably in many places it will not be understood,” he told Chilean media. “It is an expression with no practical reality.”
Don’t ask him about ‘Latinx’.
The Left is obsessed with destroying the past, but only people who have lost their sense of the past and their self-esteem are willing to go along with that. Even while leftists treat Latinos as an oppressed minority, they’re a regional majority and have little interest in adopting lefty newspeak. And why should they?
Latinos are not ashamed of colonizing the continent. We’re ashamed because we’ve lost our sense of self.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/spanish-royal-academy-refuses-to-decolonize-spanish/