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X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

NGL I sat here for like 40 seconds wondering what you call people from Spain before remembering that Spanish can refer to both language and people.

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 2 points 57 minutes ago

The bigger issue is that Spanish is an adjective, and we're looking for nouns. You can say "an Aussie" or "a Spaniard". You can't say "a Spanish".