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Sofie 'Melle' Werkers ([personal profile] bubosquared) wrote2001-05-21 04:53 pm

Pet Peeve #2

We're Christians, okay? Christians. Not xtians, Christians!

Re: Yes

[identity profile] ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com 2001-05-21 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
The X doesn't come from hackerspeak--it's the
Greek letter which is the first letter of Jesus's name in that language (Greek being the language in
which healthy portions of the New Testament were
written). It may arguably be too diminutive to
be respectful--I know some Christians object to it
on those grounds--but it's a abbreviation which long predates hackerspeak and computers.

Re: Yes

[identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com 2001-05-22 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
I knew it predated hackerspeak, but a lot of people online do use it to sound 'cool', and it still annoys me.