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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:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

If "Bologna" is "baloney", should "Cologne" be "caloney" or "calonay"? Or colony, it's a cognate of the roman place name "Colonia Agrippina".

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If "Bologna" is "baloney"

It's not

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago
[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago

USians have decided so, and they're certainly not going to start using the Italian pronunciation! If they were that smart, they'd already do it (it's not hard to say 'Bolonya').

[–] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I defend with "Colonia Agrippina" only if the enemy knows both Capo Ferro and Thibault. Of course they rarely realize I'm not left handed.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium or CCAA was the name. Today it's Köln tho so good luck with that :p

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 points 10 months ago

And people make fun of Germans for using long words Ü

[–] crt0o@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bologna is pronounced more like "boh-loh-nya" in italian

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago

Trying to describe vowels of other languages accurately in English is kind of a lost cause. "Bolonya" is a hell of a lot closer than "baloney".