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[GrayChild]

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 butchers Spanish language to be “inclusive”

Social media users learned the (alleged) Spanish version of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 alters the Spanish language to be inclusive, and to the point of it being grammatically incorrect.

nichegamer.com

Social media users learned the (alleged) Spanish version of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 alters the Spanish language to be inclusive, and to the point of it being grammatically incorrect.

The Twitter user shared a video of the alleged Spanish version of the game and started to break down why it makes no sense:

Spanish is a gendered language, meaning certain words are said differently depending on the gender of the person being spoken about.

An example for non-Spanish users would be “Una entomóloga” when referring to a female entomologist, and “Un entomólogo” for a male entomologist.

More examples in the article.

This is getting absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Perfo]

Still with this Latinx shit goddamn why US always have to bother all cultures around the world by forcing theirs everywhere and not ever asking for permission. Please stop

 

[DenchDeckard]

This shit is wild.

 

[Senua]

"our next news at 11"

 

[Revolutionary]

FFS

 

[Perfo]

"our next news at 11"

I swear it looks like a Bethesda game here

 

[Flutta]

Digusting. Western devs have no respect for peoples values. People need to stand against this garbage they are forcing down everyones throats.

 

[Foxt3r]

As a fellow spaniard ( or Latinx ), thank you America for teaching us how to speak our language properly.

 

[Xtib81]

Can't say I'm surprised unfortunately. Stupid woke culture.

 

[DenchDeckard]

"our next news at 11"

Why are you posting fallout new Vegas shots in here?

 

[Pakoe]

Lol, just lol

 

[Flutta]

Still with this Latinx shit goddamn why US always have to bother all cultures around the world by forcing theirs everywhere and not ever asking for permission. Please stop

Stop buying their shit, then they will stop.

 

[Fess]

Shoehorning this into gendered languages is always cringe.

Not sure it was the same reason but I’ll never stop laughing at the name Eivor for the main character in AC Valhalla when playing as the man. It’s an old nordic woman name. There is zero men called Eivor in the whole nordic region. It’s a King Elizabeth moment.

 

[kruis]

 

[emivita]

Is Italian version affected too? Hopefully not, it would be hilarious.

And please, stop with this shit already.

 

[GymWolf]

Performative wokeness, they don't really care so they don't put any real effort.

I love when this shit byte back their asses.

Same for the wrong flag at miles house.

 

[GymWolf]

"our next news at 11"

Stop taking drugs (cit.)

 

[Revolutionary]

People need to stand up for this garbage they are forcing down peoples throats.

When we stand up, they attempt to silence us. Bungie hid so many replies calling out their bullshit a few weeks ago, and they're still pretending like nothing happened.

Wouldn't be surprised if the actors spoke up about this in the recording studio but were told to read it as it's written.

 

[SJRB]

What is it with videogames and pandering?

Who is asking for this dumb shit?

 

[GymWolf]

Is Italian version affected too? Hopefully not, it would be hilarious.

And please, stop with this shit already.

I hope they use "femminicidio" for maximum cringe comedy effect.

 

[GrayChild]

I can already predict what will happen next:

1. PC version gets released 2-3 years later.
2. Spanish modders try to fix the butchering of their own language.
3. The mod gets described as problematic and non-inclusive and gets banned from sites like NexusMods.

 

[GymWolf]

What is it with videogames and pandering?

Who is asking for this dumb shit?

J stevensoy need his daily dose of back patting from reeee.

 

[Senua]

What is it with videogames and pandering?

Who is asking for this dumb shit?

 

[Skifi28]

Woke language seems to have that effect. I'm not native English, but I'm pretty sure calling a single person "they" is also grammatically incorrect. The correct pronoun for somebody that doesn't identify as "he" or "she" should be "it".

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Self absorbed Americans lol. Get on a plane and go see the world.

 

[ShadowLag]

I can already predict what will happen next:

1. PC version gets released 2-3 years later.
2. Spanish modders try to fix the butchering of their own language.
3. The mod gets described as problematic and non-inclusive and gets banned from sites like NexusMods.

Nexus Mods definitely salivating for the day they can start banning mods that remove this, just like they banned changing pride flag textures in Spiderman 1 and pronoun text in Starfield.

 

[Drizzlehell]

Woke language seems to have that effect. I'm not native English, but I'm pretty sure calling a single person "they" is also grammatically incorrect. The correct pronoun for somebody that doesn't identify as "he" or "she" should be "it".

Yep, so I'm assuming that the only reason why it's "they" is that "it" sounded too much like they turned into a non-organic object, lol. Literally objectifying, actually, which is hilarious to think about.

 

[GHG]

What is it with videogames and pandering?

Who is asking for this dumb shit?

They post on resetera, what do you expect?

 

[peish]

I think woke people are losers. They cannot make it in life and wants rent free acknowledgement. There are those amongst them, are well off and just doing performative wokeness to gain feels good cred.

American woke culture trying to take over the world. yucks.

 

[Senua]

I think woke people are losers. They cannot make it in life and wants rent free acknowledgement. There are those amongst them, are well off and just doing performative wokeness to gain feels good cred.

American woke culture trying to take over the world. yucks.

They've infested the younger generation in the UK, but we're very US influenced...sadly.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Woke language seems to have that effect. I'm not native English, but I'm pretty sure calling a single person "they" is also grammatically incorrect. The correct pronoun for somebody that doesn't identify as "he" or "she" should be "it".

I think the origin for that is that you can refer to unspecified individuals with 'they'. "When a person is solding equipment, they must wear protection glasses"

But using it for known, specific individuals is just newpeak as far as i know

 

[RoboFu]

According to Spider-Man 2 .. everyone in NYC speaks broken Spanish and 90% of the population is homosexual.




If only ..,, maybe Manhattan?

 

[SGRU]

Not surprised, given the references to BLM in the previous Spider-Man.

I'm so tired of this shit...

 

[PatientGamer]

How do people in Spain, Mexico, Argentina feel about this generally speaking? It's wild that we're out here butchering people's languages to be 'inclusive' of gender politics. I don't understand it. Didn't hear about any of this even 2 years ago.. what's going on lol?

 

[X-Wing]

Nichegamer always reporting on the important issues.
'Le' is an accepted substitution to el/la in Spanish.

 

[GrayChild]

How do people in Spain, Mexico, Argentina feel about this generally speaking? It's wild that we're out here butchering people's languages to be 'inclusive' of gender politics. I don't understand it. Didn't hear about any of this even 2 years ago.. what's going on lol?

I'd reckon something like this:

 

[BlackTron]

No way I will support this with a new sale. There will be a PC or $10 opportunity eventually.

 

[DenchDeckard]

What does resetera think about this stuff? They must twist themselves into knots working out which side to fall on.

 

[Dice]

This is cisphobic bigotry and philosophical colonization of cultural identity and self determination.

 

[SGRU]

How do people in Spain, Mexico, Argentina feel about this generally speaking? It's wild that we're out here butchering people's languages to be 'inclusive' of gender politics. I don't understand it. Didn't hear about any of this even 2 years ago.. what's going on lol?

I'm pretty pissed off about this. Our politicians are constantly making fools of themselves with this issue, saying ridiculous things that are nothing but a tongue twist because of this woke trend that no one cares about, making up words and trashing everything that is taught in school in terms of language. This is the most ridiculous and stupid government I can remember in Spain.

 

[rofif]

Have you not played previous Ratchet games?
Insomniac is a lost cause. They milktoasted ratched and clank and added a super cunning female and a woke spider in rift apart. yay

 

[shaddam]

I guess there are no latinos in the dev team. Or they are silenced

 

[Synless]

I guess there are no latinos in the dev team. Or they are silenced

There were probably latino/latina teammates… but they were American, not native and therefore use this bullshit.

 

[rexux-Corocotta]

I'm pretty pissed off about this. Our politicians are constantly making fools of themselves with this issue, saying ridiculous things that are nothing but a tongue twist because of this woke trend that no one cares about, making up words and trashing everything that is taught in school in terms of language. This is the most ridiculous and stupid government I can remember in Spain.

Mientras la abanderada de hacer eso fomenta una ley que rebaja las penas a violadores y abusadores sexuales dejando algunos en las calles, con dos cojones......... ( siento decirlo en español, mi ingles da pena).

 

[Physiognomonics]

Can't say I'm surprised unfortunately. Stupid woke culture.

You mean woke religion. This is technically a new religion. Christianism also started as a 'culture'.

 

[Goalus]

There were probably latino/latina teammates… but they were American, not native and therefore use this bullshit.

Isn't it problematic to assume their genders just like that? If we want to be better, it would be advisable to refer to them as latinx to make all individuals feel welcome and loved in this important discourse.

 

[deriks]

In brazilian portuguese:

The personal name keeps in english, and some people are getting mad because of it. The fucking personal name...

The guy joked by translating in the literal way Miles Morales (Quilômetros Moralista)
"think about how good some names are in english. Imagine when you pick the character and see Miles Morales there"

 

[Synless]

Isn't it problematic to assume their genders just like that? If we want to be better, it would be advisable to refer to them as latinx to make all individuals feel welcome and loved in this important discourse.

No.

 

[squidilix]

Still not big than "écriture inclusive" (inclusive writing) in France...

 

[F0rneus]

Ok so...There's a lady called Doctor Young. And it should be Doctora Young. But...then why use Doctore? That ain't even a word lol.

I don't even get why they couldn't just call her Doctora Young.