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Even when 'google' as a verb was brand new, I don't remember it sounding awkward.
I don't find “to toot” sound any stranger than “to tweet”.
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even when 'google' as a verb was brand new, I don't remember it sounding awkward.
I don't find “to toot” sound any stranger than “to tweet”.
"toot" means "fart" where I'm from. Imagine a social network where they referred to posts by users as "farts".
"Your fart was shared by 230 of your followers."
"This fart is NSFW"
"This fart has been promoted"
"Pin this fart to the top of your feed"
It does seem like a poor choice of words. Tweeting on the other hand didn't have a negative connotation until Twitter became what it is today and gave it a negative connotation.
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Being a native English speaker from another country I don't possess this association at all, and have to dig quite deep to remember that Americans do. I do get tootsuite => toute de suite i.e. a sense of immediacy, the present moment, with greater impact for being a bilingual pun. Along with that, the onomatopoeic elephant. Cynical take: notwithstanding the denial in the PR, that original author knew the scatological…
As a very young child & native American English speaker, I was told the rhyme, Beans, beans, the magical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot. That cemented the association with farts, but 'toot' as in 'toot your own horn' (idiom for self-promotion), or even just literally tooting a horn, are also strong associations. So it's not exclusively, or primarily, a word for farts to my ears – but that's one of the top…
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#54I'll be sad to see "toots" go away. I understand it was unintentional (I believe an interview with the creator on a podcast stated: "As for 'toots'...[he] just thought that was the sound an elephant makes."), but as a commentary on the average quality of discourse on social media, it was brilliant .
But it wasn’t commentary. It was His mistake. Everyone knows that Elephants go VROOOOONNANMMMMMMOHFJFF
Right? No? Nobody?
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#55I know little about Mastodon, but it seems like somebody went out of their way to make the cringiest sounding product possible. “Hey man, I just tooted on mastodon!” It really sounds like parody. I hope I am just missing the point. You might say this is a superficial criticism, but I think naming is important when it comes to social appeal. At least, it becomes important when the naming has gone so horribly wrong. If…
> I hope I am just missing the point. Pretty sure it's a pun for the French `tout suite` -- "right now / ASAP". Pretty clever actually given how much value people place on immediacy on social media...
I reckoned it was the mastodon tooting its trunk, but now I'm just confused.
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I don't find “to toot” sound any stranger than “to tweet”.
In the US, “toot” is not only a word used for something you might do with a horn. It also means “a fart.” A hilariously bad name if your humor is like that of a child. (Mine is)
My wife, exasperated at our two teenaged boys, asked me if men ever outgrow fart jokes. I laughed, said maybe, then asked her to pull my finger.
Though when primed with the word Mastodon, I did think of the large trunk and a cartoon-like trumpeting of that trunk. Right after thinking how my grandmother would call her farts toots.
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#57Classic bikeshed discussion; it's so much easier to argue over "toot" than actually fix technical issues, so everyone will chime in.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't find “to toot” sound any stranger than “to tweet”.
"toot" means "fart" where I'm from. Imagine a social network where they referred to posts by users as "farts". "Your fart was shared by 230 of your followers." "This fart is NSFW" "This fart has been promoted" "Pin this fart to the top of your feed" It does seem like a poor choice of words. Tweeting on the other hand didn't have a negative connotation until Twitter became what it is today and gave it a negative conno…
fun fact: that was kind of the plot of a letterkenny episode, called "Fartbook", from season 1. it's really good!
Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”
#59I know little about Mastodon, but it seems like somebody went out of their way to make the cringiest sounding product possible. “Hey man, I just tooted on mastodon!” It really sounds like parody. I hope I am just missing the point. You might say this is a superficial criticism, but I think naming is important when it comes to social appeal. At least, it becomes important when the naming has gone so horribly wrong. If…
I just googled Mastodon, and I think you're right. Now I'm going to go tweet about it.
I actually just finished twatting about it. Talk about naming things in a cringey - these folks should think through all the verb tenses first.
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#60I know little about Mastodon, but it seems like somebody went out of their way to make the cringiest sounding product possible. “Hey man, I just tooted on mastodon!” It really sounds like parody. I hope I am just missing the point. You might say this is a superficial criticism, but I think naming is important when it comes to social appeal. At least, it becomes important when the naming has gone so horribly wrong. If…
> I hope I am just missing the point. Pretty sure it's a pun for the French `tout suite` -- "right now / ASAP". Pretty clever actually given how much value people place on immediacy on social media...
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