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0 pointsjamesrcole6y ago0 comments

[Edit: people downvoting this, care to explain what you disagree with in it?]

Breaking news. In a series of explosive toots...

The foreign minister was forced to resign after a number of offensive toots...

OMG, your toots are so funny!...

Everyone's talking about what J K Rowling tooted today...

I can't believe you tooted that!...

...and so on

If you think I'm joking then that shows how bad a name "toot" is. Because these are all phrases that people would say about tweets, and which need to sound non-ridiculous for any such system.

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jclulow6y ago

That honestly all sounded ridiculous a decade ago with "tweet", too. The success of the platform has normalised the nomenclature.

jamesrcoleOP6y ago

I don't agree with that at all.

It's difficult to show evidence for the absence of something, though.

It'd be possible to show evidence of it, like that every time the word "tweet" was brought up the were people saying it sounded ridiculous and embarrassing.

harpiaharpyja6y ago

I dunno, it's not any more funny than if you substituted tweet in each of those.

philwelch6y ago

It’s less funny because of the implied association with flatulence.

coldacid6y ago

Perhaps I'm just too childish, but that actually makes it funnier for me.

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gsich6y ago

Most stuff on Twitter is mental flatulence ...

OJFord6y ago

What?

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