• Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      To the Mayan people X makes a ‘sh’ sound. That’s the way I pronounce it. Now and forever.

      Xitter, I mean Shitter. I still pronounce the letter X normally.

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        9 months ago

        In Portuguese, too. And most other languages from Iberia*. And “x” is typically so rare in other orthographies that, for Portuguese speakers, rendering “x” as /ʃ/ (the “sh” sound) is almost automatic, so the first time that I saw “Xitter” I couldn’t stop laughing.

        *with one exception: modern Spanish. And by “modern” I mean past the 17th century, because before that it was /ʃ/ in Spanish too. That’s where the Maya languages got that spelling convention from.

        (Sorry for the off-topic.)