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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I hope you didn't mean it, but that is a really gross sentence with a slur phonetically.

[–] shani66@ani.social 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's... Not how you pronounce xi

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

I think the commenter might speak Portuguese, or Catalan, or Chinese. Any language where X is pronounced as SH

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Huh? Phonetically it could sound like "ze males" with a thick German accent but that's not what I meant.

I quote:

No one likes xi. It is impossible to write, I mean which great mind thought it would be a good idea to turn a tornado into a letter, simply preposterous.

https://www.change.org/p/the-entire-multiverse-ban-xi-from-the-greek-alphabet

Edit: I can kinda see where the slur is now, bur that's not how you pronounce (the Greek letter) "xi". Xi is pronounced /zaɪ/ ZY or /(k)saɪ/ (K)SY in English and [ksi] in Greek.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't the greek equivalent of X Chi while Xi has more of an s sound?

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not a Greek expert, I just know what little math has taught me... 😅

The pronunciation thing came directly from Wikipedia because I was unsure how to spell it phonetically in English and then I threw the Greek pronunciation in because that's how it's pronounced in German too (since I am German and was only certain about the German pronunciation): Xi (letter)

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

It's also worth noting that the "ZY" or "KSY" pronunciations might be misleading to English speakers. The "Y" in both of those is actually like the vowel in "fly", not like in "baby".