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”

  • @[email protected]
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    Same with Gnome wanting to be pronounced “Gah-nome”, or Latex “Latech”. Just spell stuff the way you want it to be pronounced, or accept that people pronounce it another way

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      or Latex “Latech”. Just spell stuff the way you want it to be pronounced

      But they did! You’re the one who fucked it up by using an “x” (Latin letter x) instead of a “χ” (Greek letter chi).

      (Also, you didn’t capitalize or format it correctly. It’s supposed to be rendered as “LAΤΕΧ”, and yes, those last three letters are Τ Ε Χ Greek capital tau, epsilon, chi.)

      🤓

      • @Bgugi
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        Lol, the only way to be more obtuse would be to say “our project name has no approved transliteration or Unicode string… Render this svg inline or don’t talk about us.”

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          Reminds me of , as well as #11 in this list.

          (I’d love to scale that image to the same size as the text, but I don’t know if Lemmy’s markdown supports it.)

      • Caveman
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        Just letting you know I appreciate that you used the actual “χ” instead of just “X” when referring to the letter Chi.

      • @Feathercrown
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        New hill: All brand names must be composed entirely of pronounceable characters from languages in actual use today

    • @ForgotAboutDre
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      Gnome is spelt the way they want it to be said. Are you suggesting that gnome should be pronounced ‘nome’ like the garden ornament with a silent g.