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Fernanda Ferreira
@fernandaedi.bsky.social
Psycholinguist @UCDavis. Made in Portugal, raised in Canada, happily living in California. Childless cat lady.
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FFfernandaedi.bsky.social

Just saw someone refer to Twitter as Xitter, which made me laugh out loud because in Portuguese the letter X is pronounced as "sh" 🫢

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BTnonbinaryrobot.bsky.social

I believe that is the intended pronunciation 😁

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PWpzwarne.bsky.social

If you were Norwegian (or Danish) you would also get a laugh if you called it Skitter. Not sure why you would, though.

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Fernanda Ferreira
@fernandaedi.bsky.social
Psycholinguist @UCDavis. Made in Portugal, raised in Canada, happily living in California. Childless cat lady.
1.5k followers1.3k following321 posts