Just pronounce it like we would pronounce a Chinese name, where the X are pronounced sh
Twitter -> Xitter [shitter]
It’s a Roman numeral for me…
- Ten-Men
- SpaceTen
- The Ten Factor
- Tenbox Series Ten
- Mac OS Ten
Although Mac OS X was used as a roman numeral when it first launched. It lost all meaning when they added the code names to it.
It’s only called macOS for almost 7 years
Indeed. I was just referring to the years it was OS X
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Could also just be that Elon is a dumbass
A healthy dose of both
Oh no, i love the x-com games. They don’t deserve to be the name sponsor for Elons weird platform.
This is an interesting sabotage to any figures that want to maintain their presence.
If you search for “brandname twitter”, you’re probably going to get what you want. “brandname x” will be a SEO catastrophe.
Maybe they hoped to drive people to navigate through their own site and search facilities, but generally, not being where people are looking is a terrible strategy even on a chain of bad strategies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System see logo and name in case not familiar with the context
I honestly think it is close enough to the x.org logo to be a trademark suit.
Sometimes I wonder if the Claudian letters stuck and, just like we got X for /ks/ (or /gz/… or /ʃ/… or whatever, this letter is a mess), we also got a Ↄ for /ps/. Maybe modern people would be also spamming Ↄ for this sort of “rule of cool”?
When I first read this post, I thought the CSS had gone wonky and part of the O was cut off.
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