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Question: Is the @ in niñ@ substituting niño/a?Grammar questions– conjugations, verb tenses, adverbs, adjectives, word order, syntax, etc. |
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Question: Is the @ in niñ@ substituting niño/a?
I have been told that it is politically correct to translate materials using los/las, niños/as.
![]() Last night I was at a meeting where someone from Mexico told me that the "@" sign is now being used in los/las---i.e., l@s, niños/as---i.e., niñ@s to signify both sexes in a sentence. ![]() Sample sentence: Estoy de acuerdo que mi niñ@ sea asignado a la clase de inglés intensivo. Is this correct ![]() ![]() |
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The @ is something that someone with a big imagination started on the internet and it has magnetic attraction for some people ![]() It's not proper Spanish, so don't use it in your translations. ![]()
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Estoy de acuerdo que mi niñ@ sea asignad@ a la clase de inglés intensivo. ![]() (Is this really an Internet thing? I would be inclined to suspect an origin as an SMS abbreviation). |
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Para contestar a tu pregunta: SMS = Short Message Service. Es el servicio de comunicación por texto entre teléfonos celulares. No sé mucho sobre eso. Quote:
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Por ejemplo, en anuncios de "busco compañer@ de piso", si alguien pone "busco compañero de piso" luego tiene que dejar claro si es que busca compañero varón (para no escandalizar a su madre) o si le da igual que sea chico o chica. Last edited by pjt33; April 27, 2011 at 02:28 PM. Reason: sp |
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Chico(a) Chicos(as) Señor(a) Señores(as) Ciudadano(a) Ciudadanos(as) ![]()
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