drive space karen bonkers
I’ve been spelling it “xitter” and using the sh sound for the xi part of the name when pronouncing it.
This is my current favorite designation.
Lol I love it. “I’ll send you a shit.”
So then the new word for “tweets” would be “tents”?
😁
MF-ers pitching tents
‘Retent’ actually sounds pretty cool. It ‘retains’ the visibility of the ‘Tent’ by ‘Tenting’ it again…
…Yeah that’s still never getting anywhere nearly as iconic as a tweet.
Elon wants them referred to as Xeets and most people pronounce an x with an sh sound. So I believe they must be pronounced as “Sheets” and therefore we all need to argue if “Tweeted” should be “Sheeted” or if it should be “Shat”, and if a retweet is a “ReShat” or a “ReShit”.
I think of it as a Z sound when it’s at the start of a word, like xenophobe or xylophone.
Skeets? X is more of and sk sound, exit.
Team skeet just needs to start calling all their money shots skeets from.now on lol
Who pronounces x with an sh sound? Where would that sound even be? I only know it as “ex” and maybe “z” when it is the first letzter.
Spaniards transliterating Nahuatl.
I don’t give a ‘Sheet’! 😎
Much better than any combination I could think with X, specially pronunciationwise.
What about X-cretions?
Example: ‘Did you read Trumps X-cretions on the 2nd amendment?’
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Can we please pronounce it “ten”
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yes. done.
To add to this, Marco is an Apple blogger and the iPhone X was pronounced iPhone ten.
Context: twitter renamed X
I know, this is for accessibility.
As was mine.
Oh, that’s new. The context isn’t in the image, people without visual impairments have to infer it as well, is there a reason why I should include it in an image description?
Good thing you didn’t include it. I did.
Yes, but why? I’m trying to understand, why would people with visual impairments need the context made explicit? How does this improve accessibility?
It improves accessibly for people who didn’t know the context, visually impaired or otherwise.
But why indeed did your post include an answer to the question posed if it’s supposed to be just a transcription?
Breaking News: Long collapsed Roman empire claims ownership of “X” trademark.
I love the idea of Elon trying to take on the Roman fucking empire
Legion X has a bone to pick with Musk.
Elon would lose his mind if it happened lol.
What if we just, like… don’t talk about it at all?
Dont talk about what?
Sorry I communicate exclusively by newsletter
You are our new thought leader
I hope DMX sues him for trademark infringement just for the fuck of it
X gonna take it from ya
DMX died 2 years ago
Weekend at DMX’s.
Two bungling lawyers have one weekend to sue a well known tech billionaire. There’s just one small problem. their client is dead.
Coming soon to
a cinema near youFreeVee.good thing that copyright is life+70y
Hey it’s me, “that guy”. You can’t copyright the letter X. You can possibly trademark it, but trademarks are specific to an industry (hence why there are so many articles saying this company owns the X trademark, and that one, and these other 100 companies all do too).
Trademarks are not life+70y but come with their own set of criteria.
It’s a sueance
X’s (giving and taking) days are over
Xzibit would also like a word
Yo dawg, I heard you like burning money…
X-Men signing in.
I think I’ll just keep calling it Twitter.
I think he prefers to be called “Space Adolf” these days.
Pronounce what ten?
I feel like people who immediately understand that this is about twitter need to take a break and go on a nice walk around the neighbourhood
Yes, the people who follow tech news and heard about Elon Musk rebranding his 44 billion purchase to “x” are the ones who need to take a break. Indeed. Take a break as he flushes twitter down the drain, you fools.
Watching the circus clowns is my break.
Are you implying that we should do anything to stop the musk fella?
Lmao they understood a clear reference to a certain very high profile news item that you have to spend conscious effort to avoid these days. SMH my head at the absolute nerds.
Hit a bit too close to home, huh?
X, ie what twitter is being renamed to
Are you like an innocent idiot, or are you just pretending to be one?
I want to watch them try to convince people to call tweets exes
Best monkey’s paw ever!
I’m down lol I hate X, what do you call twitter and tweets? Jeezus so stupid.
In medieval Spanish, x means “ah” so “shitter” would be funny
Nope, medieval Spanish X is “kh” that’s why Mexico is actually pronounced Mekhico
Check out Oaxaca. It’s pronounced “wahaka”.
I’m literally a native Spanish speaker 💀
Okay, then you probably wouldn’t pronounce Oaxaca Wakhaka
It’s literally Oakhaka
“Literally” as in… what is that supposed to mean? In Spain? Nobody pronounces it like that.
It doesn’t mean anything in Spanish because it’s not a Spanish word in origin, idiot
My phone autocorrected “sh” to “ah”
Still, it’s Kh not Sh
We can just let it fade into obscurity like the rest of them.
