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Anyone know how the unusual consonant x was chosen to replace a and o rather than another vowel (like e)? To my untrained ear, les neen-yes sounds more in line with los neen-yos and las neen-yes than lecks neen-yecks (if that's how you'd pronounce it).
Because Spanish speaking people did not come up with the concept and people that came up with the concept were maybe not that familiar with spanish pronunciation or weren't concerned about it at all, I've heard that this originated strangely enough in Portugal but was made popular by some people in the US, I might be wrong on that one though.
Bilingual LGBTQ people used it before it became mainstream English.