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[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
by jamesrcole 7y ago
[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.
- jclulow 7y agoThat honestly all sounded ridiculous a decade ago with "tweet", too. The success of the platform has normalised the nomenclature.
- jamesrcole 7y agoI 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.
- harpiaharpyja 7y agoI dunno, it's not any more funny than if you substituted tweet in each of those.
- philwelch 7y agoIt’s less funny because of the implied association with flatulence.