Every time a newcomer posts an introduction and somebody tells them they shouldn’t have joined Mastodon.social and need to move to a different server, an angel loses their wings.
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I saw that map further up this thread which made me consider why I say 'scone' the way I do. But, it could also be a "West Coast" (of the States) speech way (not to be confused Valley Girl Speak).
@wannabemystiker I'd rule out Valley Girl alright.
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@timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits I have always been amused that the following sentence:
"I ate one scone at the Stone of Scone"
contains four occurrences of the letter sequence "one" that are often (in some accents, consistently) pronounced *completely differently*. It's not as bad as the situation with "ough", but it's pretty close.
@dpnash That's excellent
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The rhone, postponed, feels lonely on the scone.
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@wannabemystiker I'd rule out Valley Girl alright.
@psneeze
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Ditto:
'Why are you still on Bluesky too?'
'But did you *delete* your Twitter account?'
’You said you switched to Proton mail too, oh that’s bad, once someone at Proton said something’
It’s nice to see new neighbours move into the Fediverse. It feels unwelcoming to see people immediately interview them about the purity of their intentions. Or telling them You’re Doing It Wrong. They've just arrived on a journey away from Big Tech. Maybe they'd prefer to be offered a seat and a cup of tea.
@CiaraNi hell, i made a bsky account after moving to mastodon, specifically to put on a "good little capitalist citizen" face when needed
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@Stevenheywood Hahah - that made me laugh actually aloud
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@Cadbury_Moose Now I'm sad I have no biccies in the house at all, let alone Ginger Nuts
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@psneeze
Like, for sure.@wannabemystiker As if!
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@wannabemystiker As if!
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@CiaraNi hell, i made a bsky account after moving to mastodon, specifically to put on a "good little capitalist citizen" face when needed
@matildalove "to put on a "good little capitalist citizen" face when needed"
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Ditto:
'Why are you still on Bluesky too?'
'But did you *delete* your Twitter account?'
’You said you switched to Proton mail too, oh that’s bad, once someone at Proton said something’
It’s nice to see new neighbours move into the Fediverse. It feels unwelcoming to see people immediately interview them about the purity of their intentions. Or telling them You’re Doing It Wrong. They've just arrived on a journey away from Big Tech. Maybe they'd prefer to be offered a seat and a cup of tea.
@CiaraNi@mastodon.green I joined Mastodon.social in May 2022 and moved on to different #Misskey instances and I stayed with #Sharkey because the UI of Sharkey is better for me.
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@psneeze That someone would be me, if they pronounced it Skon, not scone-rhymes-with-Eoghan
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@DavidBridger See, this is why you had to leave the EU. We can't be having people wander round the Union saying Skon.
(I'm pretending not to remember that friends in Cork say Skon too.)
@CiaraNi @DavidBridger Oi, not all of us.
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@toothless @CiaraNi "Scone rhymes with cone" vs. "scone rhymes with gone" is the sort of thing that native English speakers have no trouble with, but anyone learning English as a second language is going to think "yeah, I know this is a totally effed-up language; you don't need to rub it in so openly, you know."
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@NudelnAlDente @psneeze Ignoring for a moment the distressing notion of a cheese scone of any pronunciation, I think I am going to spell scone sceoghan from now on.
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@CiaraNi @DavidBridger Oi, not all of us.
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@timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits I have always been amused that the following sentence:
"I ate one scone at the Stone of Scone"
contains four occurrences of the letter sequence "one" that are often (in some accents, consistently) pronounced *completely differently*. It's not as bad as the situation with "ough", but it's pretty close.
@timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits It gets worse. If you're willing to stretch things a bit,
"I am done eating one scone at the Stone of Scone"
could count as five, because "done" and "one" have the same vowel but the "o" in "one" includes a weird "w" sound at the beginning.
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@toothless @CiaraNi "Scone rhymes with cone" vs. "scone rhymes with gone" is the sort of thing that native English speakers have no trouble with, but anyone learning English as a second language is going to think "yeah, I know this is a totally effed-up language; you don't need to rub it in so openly, you know."
@dpnash @toothless Fair!
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@NudelnAlDente @psneeze Ignoring for a moment the distressing notion of a cheese scone of any pronunciation, I think I am going to spell scone sceoghan from now on.
@CiaraNi I am going to brainmark this for future me. @NudelnAlDente
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