Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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submitted 6 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/microblogmemes

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[–] f314 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Historically you would use the umlaut (lit. re-sound in German) to signify that both vowels are pronounced separately and not as a diphthong! I think some publications, like The New Yorker, are pretentious enough to still use it.. In this case, cooperate would be spelled coöperate.

Edit: Oops! Meant to reply to Geek_King

[–] feedum_sneedson 3 points 6 months ago

That's extremely pretentious, I'm impressed!