What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"
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A simple one I think, I refuse to call twitter by other names.
238 3 ReplyI do love, however calling it Xitter where X is pronounced “sh”
Like Xi Jinping. (Shi )
81 5 ReplyWhat a great example of Xi as in Xitter!
19 0 ReplyWonder if Xi scrolls through Xitter on the xitter.
4 0 Reply🤣
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Is it? The voice in my head pronounced zshi when I read it.
3 1 ReplyI would say it's pronounced closer to Cedar in this context (mandarin speaker)
4 0 ReplyWikipedia says. ʒI: where “ʒ” is the S in pleasure or the g in beige
Which is to say (smoking my pipe like oxford don) I was making a scatological joke.
Shitter
4 1 ReplyThat's fine, it's just hard to know without hearing native speakers' pronunciations and you've only read it. Thanks for the reply!
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Is it pronounced Ji? So Jitter
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It has no other names.
6 1 ReplyX-Twitter is almost acceptable (ex-Twitter, not wrong)
Also liked when I read the other day “… Twitter, now called X, …”
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hear hear!
4 1 ReplyIt’s called Xitter now, pronounced shitter.
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