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With a name like Twtxt how are you supposed to easily talk about it with other people? Not even one vowel
by deadbabe 2y ago
With a name like Twtxt how are you supposed to easily talk about it with other people? Not even one vowel
- sn0n 2y agoI think I'd pronounce it as, Twit-ext?
- freetinker 2y agoThis is correct. The rest are incorrect.
- zeograd 2y agoIntuitively, I read it as "tweetext"
- PNewling 2y agoHuh, in my head I was reading it 'twit-text' (this is not meant to be a pejorative comment), but I guess that is ascribing it another 't' where there isn't one
- linsomniac 2y agoThe upvotes on the pronunciation in the sibling comments should be considered legally binding and will be the authoritative pronunciation. Upvote carefully.
- mikae1 2y agoTalk? You write about it, on a (mechanical) keyboard.
- Aloha 2y agotwit-text is how I would pronounce it.
- kstrauser 2y agoIf it becomes popular, I’m pronouncing it “twixt”, even if it’s wrong.
- guerrilla 2y agoThis has to be it.
- hackernewds 2y agoI inferred Twittext so it's not ideally designed for virality
- bookofjoe 2y agohttps://imgur.com/a/XtEuaEd https://imgur.com/a/XtEuaEd
- huijzer 2y agoThere is a long history of confusing or weird project names in computing like sqlite, gif, Splunk, Hadoop, Coq, MongoDB (from humongous apparently), yacc, C, R, and X (the window manager; not a lang or the social media site).
- elpocko 2y agoNot a huge problem: it existed for 9 years and no one is talking about it.
- tux 2y agoIt kind of sounds like twitter extension. This is what i thought of it as when i first seen it. This can be very confusing.
- smitty1e 2y agoI suppose that if one were motivated, one would run a https://github.com/plomlompom/htwtxt https://github.com/plomlompom/htwtxt service and then point the audience to it. Not clear that the juice would be worth the squeeze over, e.g. Mastadon.
- bityard 2y agoNot a Welsh speaker, I see
- shakna 2y agoMost of the community call it Yarn. They use twtxt as the protocol name - and it isn't like HTTP is one vowel.
- JdeBP 2y agoAs its name says, "double u" is not just one but two vowels. (-: