AyraSutoraifu
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Do you call the "X" button on Dualshocks the "Cross Button" or "Ecks Buttons"?
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Off-Kilter
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actthafool
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Ex
But as far as I'm aware it's meant to be cross. It's supposed to be the cancel (as in cross out) button
But as far as I'm aware it's meant to be cross. It's supposed to be the cancel (as in cross out) button
Alex_Mexico
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The X on the Xbox controller is clearly an Ecks and the X on the Dualshock is a Cross (not a letter X) but I still dont know anyone that calls the latter a Cross even if it is.
The_Endgamer
Member
'Ecks'.
I've never heard it being called cross... ya weirdos
I've never heard it being called cross... ya weirdos
Cynn
Member
We should meet, then you'd know someone.
The X on the Xbox controller is clearly an Ecks and the X on the Dualshock is a Cross (not a letter X) but I still dont know anyone that calls the latter a Cross even if it is.
Jimnymebob
Member
Ecks.
Hesemonni
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alexbull_uk
Member
Its definitely supposed to be called cross but I call it X like a normal person.
I mean the guys on PS Blogcast also call it "Ecks".
They debated the same OP topic in a recent podcast ep too haha.
Omg I thought this was only me and my friends as a kid.
We graduated to saying square though lol
They debated the same OP topic in a recent podcast ep too haha.
Omg I thought this was only me and my friends as a kid.
We graduated to saying square though lol
Same.
Because the letter X is supposed to go with a square and circle ?
Doesn't many ANY sense.
I say cross and it works much better than the letter.
"Croix, carré, rond, triangle" (In French).
It's just pure logic.
Benzychenz
Member
Man, so many people wrong in this thread and some weirdly angry about it.
Like, I call it 'ECKS' too but thinking logically for 3 seconds it's clearly officially the cross button.
Like, I call it 'ECKS' too but thinking logically for 3 seconds it's clearly officially the cross button.
CaptainTiptop
Member
I called it the 'Ecks' button because I always have but I know it's 'Cross' really
Liamario
Banned
Technically it would be Jesus carrying the crucifix due to the angle of it.
anothertech
Member
Cross
Ex
Ex
Tbh, I really don't buy this shape line.
Square, triangle, circle are geometric figures. Crossing lines aren't. In the same liberal understanding of shape by which crossing lines are a cross shape, you can have an x-shape.
It's about confirm, disconfirm (in tandem with circle). And as pointed out above, the cross, the cross mark, the x, the exmark are all current names for that symbol.
Personally, I've never been in an area where that mark is called a cross. It's always been an x.
Other people know it as cross.
And on top of this, you toss in the fact that it isn't even used as a disconfirm button in much of the world and that circle isn't the natural opposite to it in much of the world either and it isn't even associated with the reason it is what it is in much of the world.
And then also throw in a history of clearly x-buttons in gaming...
It is simply not the case that cross is the "logical" answer. Sure it is a fine answer and might be the official answer, but ecks is just as sensible an answer.
Square, triangle, circle are geometric figures. Crossing lines aren't. In the same liberal understanding of shape by which crossing lines are a cross shape, you can have an x-shape.
It's about confirm, disconfirm (in tandem with circle). And as pointed out above, the cross, the cross mark, the x, the exmark are all current names for that symbol.
Personally, I've never been in an area where that mark is called a cross. It's always been an x.
Other people know it as cross.
And on top of this, you toss in the fact that it isn't even used as a disconfirm button in much of the world and that circle isn't the natural opposite to it in much of the world either and it isn't even associated with the reason it is what it is in much of the world.
And then also throw in a history of clearly x-buttons in gaming...
It is simply not the case that cross is the "logical" answer. Sure it is a fine answer and might be the official answer, but ecks is just as sensible an answer.
Chuckie
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Eien1no1Yami
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I call it chi.
I also call the circle as 'omicron' and the triangle as 'delta' xD
I also call the circle as 'omicron' and the triangle as 'delta' xD
Catalix
And on the sixth day the LORD David Bowie created man and woman in His image. And he saw that it was good. On the seventh day the LORD created videogames so that He might take the bloody day off for once.
I'm guessing that the people utterly confused about how an X can also, very commonly, be interpreted as a "cross" are not North American drivers.
Context is everything.
Context is everything.
Chuckie
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Yes but it is called an St. Andrew's cross
FingerBang
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I call it "ecks", but I used to call it "eecks".
That's how you pronounce it in my country.
anothertech
Member
I guess it could be called a 'criss' as well, as in 'xmas' (Christmas) ya?
There we have it. Triangle, circle, square, criss
Also "Ex! Ex as in..." "Eggs and bacon" "Ex and baaaaccc..."
FantasticMrSnake
Member
Sure. But the context of the buttons does not obviously call for cross.
a) the symbol it is meant to invoke is called either a cross or an ex among further names
b) it is used (in design) in tandem with a confirm symbol not in use in the western world
c) it isn't even used (in most games in western releases) in a way consistent with that symbolism in any case
And then the "shapes" context is also imperfect:
Crossing lines aren't a shape. They encompass no area. You can't have a shape bound by two lines in Euclidean geometry.
It doesn't "fit" the circle, triangle, square paradigm cleanly as a cross.
And then the context of video game controllers says to a lot of people:
X
So unless you see it as the cross mark/x mark and call that thing cross, which people do, context tends to speak to x just fine. And even if you see it as that mark, people can and do call that mark x.
Night Angel
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Everyone I know in the US calls it Ecks.
The only time I've used cross instead of ecks for the letter X was for MHXX, mainly because the name Double Cross is hilarious (and so, so painful) with the betrayalton of no localization.
The only time I've used cross instead of ecks for the letter X was for MHXX, mainly because the name Double Cross is hilarious (and so, so painful) with the betrayalton of no localization.
I know it's supposed to be a cross, given that it's surrounded by geometrical shapes, but I've always called it like the letter. Mostly because it's the same symbol as the one Nintendo and Microsoft use, and that's clearly a letter.
Circle
Square
Triangle
St. Andrew's Cross
Circle
Square
Triangle
St. Andrew's Cross
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Chuckie
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This man gets it!!!!
I call it both 'kruisje' and 'ix' personally. But were I a native English speaker I'd probably say Ex.
RoadHazard
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In Swedish we have two different words for these crosses. A "kors" is the upright one Jesus chilled on, a "kryss" is the diagonal one on the DualShock.
Dit.