impronunciable

Spanish

Etymology

From in- +‎ pronunciable.

Adjective

impronunciable m or f (masculine and feminine plural impronunciables)

1. unpronounceable

   Antonym: pronunciable

   • 2015 September 21, Mercedes Cebrián, “Pequeñas cosas que alegran la vida”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Y para terminar, un postre sencillo: las golosinas suecas de Oomuombo (Fuencarral, 27; www.oomuombo.com) tienda de nombre impronunciable, pero bello visualmente por su redondez tipográfica.

     And finally, a simple dessert: Swedish candies from Oomuombo (Fuencarral, 27; www.oomuombo.com), a store with a name that is unpronounceable, but visually beautiful because of its typographic roundness.

   • 2019 May 22, Lina M. Sanchez, “Lenguaje incluyente: todx o lo impronunciable”, in El Tiempo (Colombia)‎^[2]:

     Sin embargo, ante la discusón de “cómo hacer el lenguaje más incluyente” creo que la respuesta “hacerlo impronunciable” (con el uso casi irónico de la x) no enfrenta el problema sino que crea otros que distaen ^[sic] y que no logran entender la cuestión de género y su vínculo con la lengua.

     However, faced with the debate of "how to make language more inclusive" I think that the response "make it unpronounceable" (with the almost ironic use of x) doesn't confront the problem, but rather it creates others that distract and don't manage to understand the issue of gender and its link to language.

Further reading

• “impronunciable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16