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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:

  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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Huh, we also spell it like that in Germany. Surely this is the same for entirely normal reasons...

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, most languages read vowels somewhat similarly. It’s English that differs from the norm and therefore often has „weird“ spellings, especially for onomatopoeia.

See Great Vowel Shift

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah English teachers in my country start the first lesson by telling you that in English you don’t pronounce words exactly as written. Because in Estonian, each letter has exactly one sound. Grammatical context can change the length of the sound, but not really the sound itself.

Also it’s spelled mjäu.