If you pronounce the X how it is in Chinese you get what essentially sounds like shitter
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- 6 months
Just wait until they find out that “tweets” became “excretions”
6 monthsYes :D
I love the ingenuity of that flip. He wanted it to sound cool; new name seemed to be invulnerable to mockery. But in the confusion following the change the boot licking news-places started making sure that no one mixes up the new name - “X, former Twitter”. Which shortens up just too perfect. If not for that, calling it Xitter would feel a little bit too much. But with that mouthful being banged on everywhere, it all just fell together perfectly
- 6 months
A word that starts with X in those languages will have the “sh” sound, so “Xit” will sound exactly like you’d expect to hear “shit”, without having to worry about whether the letters are representing the sound decently. I mean, pinyin fucking sucks, who the fuck thought that a good stand in for “j” or “dj” sound would be “zh”? Or that C alone is a good representation of “tz” sound??
- 6 months
Yeah, but the x in Chinese is sh
So people calling it xitter is shitter
I don’t know if it was intentional or not but it’s funny
- 6 months
Intentional, though you’re the first person I’ve seen link it to Mandarin.
- realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish6 months
I know nothing about the Chinese language but I knew it was pronounced Shitter. Maybe because I know how Xi is pronounced, but I think maybe more how Xmas is Christmas.
