What makes a word a "real" word? All words were made up at some point or another. Latinx is in the OED which, if there is a way to decide whether a word is real, seems to be a strong signal.
You should actually attempt to read the study you're referencing by proxy of a wikipedia link (also, very lazy to not just cite the study):
That absolutely was not the result the study found.
First, it was a study of "Latinx among Hispanic-Latinos in the United States".
Second, this is how the study was performed:
> Building off of the work of Salinas and Lozano (2019), we assess the emergence of and increasing interest in the term “Latinx” in two distinct ways: 1)by examining Google Search Trends as a proxy for the degree of public interest in the term(Mellon 2014), and 2)by measuring the prevalence of use of the term in academic scholarship using the Dimensions API.
Even based on this they find:
> [...] indicate that just 25% of Hispanic Latino individuals are even aware of the term (Pew Research Center 2020).
Finally
> Overall, 25.3% of all respondents have heard of the term Latinx. Among those who have heard of the term, 14.4% stated they have ever used the term to describe themselves. Similarly, 31.7% of those who have heard the term believed it should be used to describe the broader Hispanic/Latino population.
At no point in the study do they ever suggest that the term is rejected, in fact what it found was that the more the responder was in spaces where racial privilege mattered they used it more and less when they went home.
My math skills are somewhat lacking but 3.64% of all respondents using the term to describe themselves doesn’t seem like mass adoption. And even that small group doesn’t use it around fellow Latinxs (don’t know the plural, Latinii?). Some might even call that rejection if they were so inclined.
I'm actually for D&I but latinx seems like textbook virtue signalling especially when most Latin-American people don't even like it. I believe they prefer just latino.
Are you saying that my comment isn't true? I read through the abstract and conclusion and the study just seems to claim that latinx is gaining broader recognition in college educated and younger people however there's still a gap between knowledge of the term and actual usage.
There were hypothesis about it gaining more usage however that's not reflected in the actual study and it even goes so far as to say that "the term will be... accepted or not, regardless of what the RAE(Real Academia Española) or academics say"
> Overall, 25.3% of all respondents have heard of the term Latinx. Among those who have heard of the term, 14.4% stated they have ever used the term to describe themselves
If 85% of people who've heard of the term have never referred to themselves as latinx, that doesn't sound good for its adoption.
Seems like the jury's still out on whether it's gaining acceptance or not but at the moment, latino is overwhelmingly favored.
Words aren't an application, just because it's not generally used doesn't mean it's "not good for adoption". Further, where it's used and who it's being used by matters a ton when it comes to linguistics. Finally, latino was originally coined in the 40's while latinx is only what, 15 years old in some cases?
But none of this matters because your claim was: "latinx seems like textbook virtue [sic]signalling especially when most Latin-American people don't even like it".
None of what you said matters because you haven't said anything to disprove my claim that "latinx seems like textbook virtue signaling especially when most Latin-American people don't even like it"
> where it's used and who it's being used by matters a ton when it comes to linguistics
I agree. And the study showed that even within the younger, university educated populations who would be most likely to know about and use the term latinx, very few people use it.