As noted by security researcher Will Dormann, some posts on X purport to lead to a legitimate website, but actually redirect somewhere else. In Dormann’s example, an advertisement posted by a verified X user claims to lead to forbes.com. When Dormann clicks the link, however, it takes him to a different link to open a Telegram channel that is, “helping individuals earn maximum profit in the crypto market,” he said. In short, the “Forbes” link leads to crypto spam
𝕏itter. In
spanish(sorry, I was mistaken) some languages X sounds like sh, so it’s Shitter now.I’m sorry, what? Can you give some examples in Spanish where the letter x makes a sh sound?
I don’t speak Spanish (helpful eh?) but I remember when I was in Mexico I went to a cool place called Xel-Há, which was pronounced shell-ha. So there’s one.
I don’t think that’s Spanish. Nahuatl, which is an indigenous language spoken in Mexico, does use x- to transcribe the sound commonly written as sh- in English, so that’s probably a Nahuatl place-name.
In the case of Xitter, though, the reference is generally to Mandarin Chinese, which uses x- to transcribe one of the two or three distinct sounds in that language that all sound like sh- to Anglophones.
That makes sense, thanks for teaching me something today :)
Those are Mayan words
Why didn’t they use a Spanish word when they started that settlement in pre-first century (according to Wikipedia) history?
The same reason half the state names in the US have indigenous origins, I suppose. Guess you’ll have to ask the colonizers.
I was asking why the Mayan people didn’t choose a Spanish name when they founded Xelha thousands of years ago.
Lol, I guess it was obvious now that you mention it
xoloitzcuintle, sometimes xcaret is pronounced as shcaret (not common tho)
Neither of those words are Spanish tho. Xoloizcuintle is a náhuatl word, and Xcaret is a mayan word.
that’s true
It’s mostly places that carry the sound from old Spanish, as most old Spanish words with X’s changed to J’s.
I always refer to it as Xitter or Xchan. I’m yet to encounter someone who doesn’t know which fallen brand I’m referring to.
*Chinese
No, it doesn’t.
Source: I’m from Spain.
Portuguese, people. X sound like sh in Portuguese. So Xopping, xell, xelter and Xitter. Words in Portuguese where X sounds like sh: xarope, xerife, xícara.
Maybe you were thinking of “ix” which is pronounced “sh” in Spain e.g. when referring to “la caixa”, a bank. It refers to cash.
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Like in xenophobia?
So it’s shenobiology? 🤔
Yex.
Hey! You’re not OP! And stop saying yes like Sean Connery.
*Xean Connery
The fuck?
xrays now shrays?
Xylophone (Zy) is now pronounced Shylophone?
Xenon (Zenon) is now Shenon?
Xerox is Sherox?
Xylitol (Zy) is Shylitol?
I cannot think of a single word starting X pronounced Sh and not Zh
Got no clue what a movie like xXx becomes
Yes, if you’re Sean Connery!
Love playing my shylaphone
I found Sean Connery!