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Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests (www.forbes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

To the Mayan people X makes a 'sh' sound. That's the way I pronounce it. Now and forever.

Xitter, I mean Shitter. I still pronounce the letter X normally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In Portuguese, too. And most other languages from Iberia*. And "x" is typically so rare in other orthographies that, for Portuguese speakers, rendering "x" as /ʃ/ (the "sh" sound) is almost automatic, so the first time that I saw "Xitter" I couldn't stop laughing.

*with one exception: modern Spanish. And by "modern" I mean past the 17th century, because before that it was /ʃ/ in Spanish too. That's where the Maya languages got that spelling convention from.

(Sorry for the off-topic.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This was almost entirely on topic