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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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[–] [email protected] 227 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

A simple one I think, I refuse to call twitter by other names.

[–] satanmat 76 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I do love, however calling it Xitter where X is pronounced “sh”

Like Xi Jinping. (Shi )

[–] Lemminary 19 points 2 weeks ago

What a great example of Xi as in Xitter!

[–] ivanafterall 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wonder if Xi scrolls through Xitter on the xitter.

[–] satanmat 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is it? The voice in my head pronounced zshi when I read it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I would say it's pronounced closer to Cedar in this context (mandarin speaker)

[–] satanmat 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wikipedia 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's fine, it's just hard to know without hearing native speakers' pronunciations and you've only read it. Thanks for the reply!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Is it pronounced Ji? So Jitter

[–] jaggedrobotpubes 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

X-Twitter is almost acceptable (ex-Twitter, not wrong)

Also liked when I read the other day “… Twitter, now called X, …”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It’s called Xitter now, pronounced shitter.