What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

NotNotMike@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 461 points –

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

I do love, however calling it Xitter where X is pronounced β€œsh”

Like Xi Jinping. (Shi )

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

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

Wikipedia says. Κ’I: where β€œΚ’β€ 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

That's fine, it's just hard to know without hearing native speakers' pronunciations and you've only read it. Thanks for the reply!

Is it pronounced Ji? So Jitter

It has no other names.

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

Also liked when I read the other day β€œβ€¦ Twitter, now called X, …”

It’s called Xitter now, pronounced shitter.