Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months agoTo the Mayan people X makes a ‘sh’ sound. That’s the way I pronounce it. Now and forever.
Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months agoTo the Mayan people X makes a ‘sh’ sound. That’s the way I pronounce it. Now and forever.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 8 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.)
isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
This was almost entirely on topic