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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by notnotmike@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] kubica@fedia.io 236 points 3 months ago

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

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 76 points 3 months ago

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

Like Xi Jinping. (Shi )

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

What a great example of Xi as in Xitter!

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Wonder if Xi scrolls through Xitter on the xitter.

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

🤣

[-] Maeve@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] kapitol@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Maeve@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months 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!

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 3 months ago

Is it pronounced Ji? So Jitter

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

It has no other names.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

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

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

hear hear!

[-] zerofk@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

It’s called Xitter now, pronounced shitter.

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