Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests

• Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.)

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    • isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This was almost entirely on topic

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• grte@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Xchan

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  • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Szechuan

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