If you pronounce the X how it is in Chinese you get what essentially sounds like shitter
yes
Just wait until they find out that “tweets” became “excretions”
Not so much showerthought as it is shitterthought.
A xitterthought?
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Works better if you think in Spanish or Portuguese
How so?
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??
Yeah that’s fair,
What? It’s just “X + twitter = xitter”, isn’t it?
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
Intentional, though you’re the first person I’ve seen link it to Mandarin.
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.
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