I feel bad that I can't get over the fact that a Mastodon message is called a "toot".
It just keeps reminding me of the old rhyme about beans, beans, the magical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot. (Although in the English of most former colonies that didn't violently rebel, it's pronounced "fart").
I suppose that's the point, it's a nice meta joke punning on tweet, but implying it's all just farting in the wind.
> (Although in the English of most former colonies that didn't violently rebel, it's pronounced "fart")
Also true in American English. You have two things wrong:
1. The rhyme calls beans "the musical fruit".
2. "Toot" is relevant in that context, being a way you can describe blowing a horn.[1] But obviously, the primary reason for using the word "toot" there is that it rhymes with fruit, not that it's the normal word for farting.
[1] Or sometimes another instrument; there's a tongue twister that starts "A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot."
That's all nice and well, but while "toot" can be both a verb and a noun describing the message that is published, similar to "tweet", "publish" is just a verb - so how do you call a Mastodon message now?
As you've already done, you can call it a "message", I call it a "post". We don't need every social media site to strictly require their own bespoke terminology merely for the sake of branding.
That’s only a modern day theory and feels somewhat retrofitted interpretation of the facts (from what I’ve seen when researching this myself). There are various spellings of the surname, since names often didn’t have a formal spelling in the early days of book keeping. And some of the spellings begun with a ‘T’.
So the more likely scenario is the name was only picked because it sounded similar to their original German family name while being an English-styled spelling.
Given we are taking 30+ years ago though, the best we can do at this stage is speculate.
However even if the card game theory were true, it still doesn’t make Trump a powerful name in the U.K. because the fart connotation is still more prevalent.
It just keeps reminding me of the old rhyme about beans, beans, the magical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot. (Although in the English of most former colonies that didn't violently rebel, it's pronounced "fart").
I suppose that's the point, it's a nice meta joke punning on tweet, but implying it's all just farting in the wind.