Perhaps I should elaborate on my rant. It was intended for companies which use X and Z in product/event/company names as a lameass attempt to “relate” to their intended customer base.
Here’s an example of a completely gratuitous Z: Disneyland just rolled out a new dining program (extremely unpopular with employees) called “Star Dinerz”. WTF? Since when is anything about eating the same crap for twice the price worthy of a Z? Since when is an employee cafeteria Z-worthy?
Disney is just reaching out to all the Wigger Youth in america.
Basically, the z or x means that they are extreme, quite possibly to the nth or tenth degree.
So I’d suggest
that
you
disengage
with
the
playa
hatin’!
Word out.
X is only worth 8 points. Qand Z and the 10 pointerz 
:d&r:
oops… Q and Z are the 10 pointerz
teaches me to post when half asleep and that preview is my best friend
It is part of phonetically correcness that is going on, like sk8ter boi.
My Brooklyn College Diploma is from “City Vniversity of New York”. Where in the hell is that? Why don’t we rag on printers that replace ‘U’ with a ‘V’, like they never heard of Webster’s.
It’s even worse that I didn’t use a translator to write that.
At least one other stupid trend is finally finished.
Namely, putting an “i” or “e” in front of your company name to indicate that you are cybercool, with random capitalization, and using single letters to represent certain words. That is sooooo 1990z.
A store that takes your pizza order by telephone becomes EPizza.
Order pizza off the web: IPizza
Eburgers. IphoneU. UCMe. E-renovationS. Etc.
That’s it. I’m never playing Literati with you ever again!
[sub]Speaking of which, where have you been?![/sub]
Robin
What scared me is that I didn’t need the translation to figure it out.
You mean, of course:
Eburgerz
E-rennovationz
and IPissa.
I did an inventory in a supermarket this morning. Among the cereals, I spotted a product named “Dinosaur Ballz” and that’s the truth.
Is that related to the other giant-lizard-themed cereal, “Dragon Ballz?” 
I imagine that Disney is attempting to be urban and edgy (two other overworked words).
I just have to keep reminding myself that a language generally evolves toward simplicity (like taking the “u” out of “honour”).
Yea, the “z” part I think is more rap than l33t – actually more grafitti-tagger, come to think about it, I seem to recall instances of "BoyZ’ all the way to the 80s.
Still, really, really daft when used by commercial entities in a pathetic attempt at hip. That management of the Disney employee cafeteria is not a hip, radical, h4x0r, or Xtreme endeavor is just a fact they should live with.
That’s just it though, isn’t it? “Z” went out with the 80’s (80z). Using a z in your name today is tantamount (in my mind, at least) to calling yourself “mondo cool”(yes, I’ve heard that in radio ads in the last 5 years), or something bad “grody”.
Capacitor: there’s at least a historical argument for that - if you look at ancient Roman buildings (bvildings ;)), you’ll see that the letter “u” hadn’t developed yet, and at one time they actually DID use v in both situations. It’s kind of like how the letter ‘s’ evolved from looking more like an ‘f’. That said, using such a “gimmick”, and I firmly believe it’s a gimmick, in order to make an institution seem more venerable is equally lame.
So how the hell do you spell “uvula” in latin?
Another of those things I don’t get worked up about. I’m a geezer so I’d just look foolish trying to be hip so anything I did would sound like “radical.” I can just make out l33tsp33k but am not fluent, I didn’t take “dork 101” in college.
I’ve heard that ending a word with the letter “z” is used to denote something of dubious legality: for instance, a website that offers downloads of programs that it does not have copyright to would refer to its content as “sofwarz”. So if Disney is offering “Dinarz”, perhaps the food has been stolen from Knott’s Berry Farm.
I keep expecting a post by my namesake shadez
Vvvla
But it’s probably different than that
Like monstrohipposesqvipaedaphoozamickmackpaddywackgiveadogabonethisoldmaniscominhomeandtheboyzarebackintownsohideyourselfawayandcarryonmywaywardsonbecauseimarocketmanandidontwannabeacasualtyofsocietybecauseifimacasualtythatwouldshowyoutheshapeofmyheartandthegroundiddieonwouldbedirtyanddontyouforgetaboutitwhileirideonthecrazytraintosharethelandanditstheendoftheworldasweknowitandifeelfinebecausetheskeletonsofsocietyareinmyclosetandimcleaninoutmyclosetbecauseitsdirtyandiwannarockandrollallnightandpartyevarydayandthatwouldmakesomespaceandallthethingsshesaidarerunninthroughmyheadandheyimscreamingwhenyoumeanwashedawaydoyoumeanwashedawayfrommemmmmmmmm
Bonus points if you catch the song lyrics hidden in there!
At least no-one pluralises words with apostrophe-z.
They don’t, right?