this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

But how to pronounce "sh.it"?!

(Weird, don't know why it automatically became a link.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

AFAIK that's just standard link terminology. Any . followed by two characters is automatically interpreted as a link. It's been that way on Twitter for quite a while, and I remember at least one conservative politician falling afoul of that at some point in the past, though I'd have to search a bit to find it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's not any two letters, but there are hundreds of TLDs. Many of the two letter ones are delegated to nations. .it is the TLD for Italy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

How to pronounce: shit

He just worked it cleverly into a domain name with the .

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Try to use a backslash:

  • sh\.it

becomes

  • sh.it