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X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called(arstechnica.com)

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X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called::After a report called out Musk’s union-busting, UAW’s blue check got reinstated.

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MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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Xitter ! love it, now lexicon

Usage: Can’t wait to watch Xitter (pronounced Zit - ter) pop after Musk wrecks the train.

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Kanoa@lemmy.world
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My very limited exposure to Chinese makes me read it as shitter

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MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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Fair enough, but I’ll go with mine anyway.

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dynamojoe@lemmy.world
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IIRC the letter X in Portuguese is also pronounced as “schiss”. So Xitter makes a lot of sense to me.

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kvothelu@lemmy.world
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kshitter

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???@lemmy.world
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Could we please pronounce it was “Shitter”? Thanks.

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Huschke@programming.dev
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I already thought that that was the agreed update pronunciation.

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DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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The other pronunciation is “Zitter.”

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MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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My exposure to English gives xylophone, xenon, xerox, xenograft. Sounds like Z at the start of a word.

I get you like it to be shit, which takes ages to decompose. I’d rather it pop like a zit and be gone, and with the current trajetory, that would not surprise.

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