Ciara1d ago
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.
Show threadCiara1d ago

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.

Show threadJim Daly1d ago
@CiaraNi And maybe a nice biscuit or a scone.
Show threadCiara1d ago
@psneeze Someone would immediately tell them they pronounced Scone the wrong way.
Show threadCiara1d ago
@psneeze That someone would be me, if they pronounced it Skon, not scone-rhymes-with-Eoghan
Show threadJim Daly
@CiaraNi 100% it's Eoghan!
Mar 22 at 8:29amWeb
Show threadCiara1d ago
@psneeze Yes it is! I can't believe there are people who walk this earth saying Skon Skon Skon.
Show threadDavid Bridger1d ago
@CiaraNi I say skon. It's the correct way, a northern hill to die on.
Show threadMattChippytea1d ago
@DavidBridger @CiaraNi there were few survivors of the scone/skon wars. #skonskonskon
Show threadCiara1d ago

@Wifiwits @DavidBridger This has happily reminded me of one of the happiest moments of my life, the moment when I learnt that the Scone of Stone in the Discworld is based on an actual real Stone of Scone in Scotland.

#SconeRyhmesWithEoghan
#SconeNotSkon

Show thread🐕1d ago
@CiaraNi @Wifiwits @DavidBridger often wondered if they pronounce it scone or scone in Scone.
Show threadDavid Bridger1d ago
@jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits I believe they pronounce it skon.
Show threadTim Crumpton1d ago
@DavidBridger @jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits I don't know how they pronounce scone in Scone, but I do know they pronounce Scone skoon
Show threadCiara1d ago

@timpootle That entire sentence makes sense to me, which it probably shouldn't.

@DavidBridger @jbenjamint @Wifiwits

Show threadSchroedinger's Possum1d ago
@CiaraNi @timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @Wifiwits
:)
Show threadCiara1d ago

@schroedingerspossum
Haha that thought struck me too. It's a very Fediversey thread, in the best way. As is your excellent meme, which made me laugh aloud.

@timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @Wifiwits

Show threadDavid Nash1d ago

@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.

Show threadCiara1d ago

@dpnash That's excellent

@timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @Wifiwits

Show threadDavid Nash1d ago

@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.

Show threadCiara1d ago

@dpnash That is either much worse or much better, I can't quite decide

@timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @Wifiwits

Show threadCiara1d ago
@DavidBridger @jbenjamint @Wifiwits I believe they pronounce it scone
Show threadCiara1d ago
@jbenjamint @Wifiwits @DavidBridger I wonder that too, now
Show threadMark Reid1d ago

@jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits @DavidBridger

*taps mic*

Ahem…

SKWON

*runs, hides*

Show threadCiara1d ago

@mdreid Skwon! Well maybe if you're in the process of eating one, then with your mouth full that's what Scone sounds like

@jbenjamint @Wifiwits @DavidBridger

Show thread🐕1d ago

@CiaraNi @mdreid @jbenjamint @Wifiwits @DavidBridger Scone rhymes exactly with Doune (another very historic town just down the road).

Hope that helps.

Show threadDavid Bridger1d ago
@jbenjamint @CiaraNi @mdreid @Wifiwits Purrfecto!
Show threadCiara1d ago

@jbenjamint Doune. Skoon. Rhymes with loon.

@mdreid @Wifiwits @DavidBridger

Show threadBodhipaksa23h ago

@CiaraNi @jbenjamint @mdreid @Wifiwits @DavidBridger When I was a wee boy my dad told me we were going to Doune Castle*. I misheard it as Doom Castle and was very disappointed when he put me straight.

*They filmed some of Monty Python and the Holy Grail there.

PS. Scone is a Scots word and we say it skon, but if you guys want to sound silly that's absolutely fine 🙂

Show threadCiara23h ago

@bodhipaksa Doom Castle - I would have been disappointed too.

"Scone is a Scots word and we say it skon, but if you guys want to sound silly that's absolutely fine" - oh no, that's a credible argument. I may have to revise my stance. Or just avoid it by switching to muffins from now on.

@jbenjamint @mdreid @Wifiwits @DavidBridger

Show threadIsocat1d ago

The rhone, postponed, feels lonely on the scone.

@jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits @DavidBridger

Show threadCiara1d ago

@isocat Ha 🙂

@jbenjamint @Wifiwits @DavidBridger

Show threadKevin Smith17h ago
@CiaraNi @Wifiwits @DavidBridger I remember when It showed up in Thud (I think) and I was so glad I understood the reference, thanks purely to an episode of #HighlanderTheSeries
Show threadrob1d ago
@Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi most of the survivors were muffins and bagels, thus forever changing English tea habits.
Show threadCiara1d ago
@robparsons @Wifiwits @DavidBridger Winners write the history of wars
Show threadDavid Nash22h ago

@robparsons @Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi

Someday, given the dubious existence of the “cronut”, there is going to be a cross-breed between scones and doughnuts (or donuts, for us USAians).

Will it be spelled sconut or scoughnut? Will it rhyme with do(ugh)nut or sound more like “sonnet”? And don’t get me started on the Skoonuts the town of Scone will make.

Show threadrob22h ago
@dpnash @Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi Sonnet. It will have to be sonnet.
Show threadDavid Nash22h ago
@robparsons @Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi Excellent. “Scoughnut” it is, “ough” pronounced with the vowel in “cot” (which may be yet another freaking “ough” sound, if you pronounce “ought” or “bought” with the “or” vowel rather than the “cot” vowel).
Show threadDavid Nash1d ago
@Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi Which "skon" do you mean? In the IPA, /skon/ is something that sounds like scone, rather than one that sounds like skon. Ok, to be clearer, something that sounds like tone, rather than something that sounds like gone.
Show threadCiara1d ago

@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.)

#SconeRyhmesWithEoghan
#SconeNotSkon

Show threadDavid Bridger1d ago
@CiaraNi The Irish half of my ancestors lived in Cork, so I'm doubly skonning.
Show threadCiara1d ago
@DavidBridger Well that explains it, that's where you have it from so. They just have to be different down there in Cork, they can't get over not being the capital
Show threadDavid Bridger1d ago
@CiaraNi The other half of my crowd are mainly from Glasgow which is the capital of Scotland, and Liverpool which is the capital of Liverpool. Everyone of them was and is socialist and right about things that matter. Like skons.
Show threadCiara1d ago
@DavidBridger Haha, well this almost but not quite convinces me that Skon is a perfectly cromulent pronunciation.
Show threadDavid Bridger1d ago
@CiaraNi Perfectly so, I'd say.
Show threadNudeln Al Dente 🐘1d ago
@CiaraNi @DavidBridger Oi, not all of us.
Show threadCiara1d ago

@NudelnAlDente 🙂

@DavidBridger

Show threadPetra van Cronenburg1d ago
@CiaraNi As Mastodon has its seat in Germany, it's spelled Vollkornbrot! 🤣🤣🤣 (I have a German accent). @psneeze
Show threadCiara1d ago
@NatureMC @psneeze Vollkornbrot is a fine boy's name
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg1d ago
@CiaraNi 🤣👍🏼 @psneeze
Show threadSteven Heywood1d ago
@NatureMC @CiaraNi @psneeze
Down South "Vollkornbrot" is pronounced: "Beecham."
Show threadJim Daly1d ago
@Stevenheywood 🤣 @NatureMC @CiaraNi
Show threadCiara1d ago

@Stevenheywood Hahah - that made me laugh actually aloud

@NatureMC @psneeze

Show threadPetra van Cronenburg9h ago
@Stevenheywood 😂 @CiaraNi @psneeze
Show threadEye1d ago

@CiaraNi @psneeze

Lol. I pronounce it "sc-oh-ne"

My OH pronounces it "skon"

There are neverending discussions in our house about it! XD :D

Show threadmillennial fulcrum1d ago
@grb090423 @CiaraNi @psneeze I always say skon because when it scone, it's gone.
Show threadEye1d ago

@falcennial @CiaraNi @psneeze

That's the argument my OH uses... what's the fastest cake in the world: scone. (skon)

Half my family are from the midlands and upwards (UK) and it seems more folk there say "sc-oh-ne".

Show threadmillennial fulcrum1d ago
@grb090423 @CiaraNi @psneeze delightful.
Show threadAndi H1d ago
@grb090423 @falcennial @CiaraNi @psneeze
It's scone as in cone 😉 (North England)
Show threadEye1d ago

@AH_99 @falcennial @CiaraNi @psneeze

Yessssss! 💪😁

Show threadCiara1d ago
@AH_99 @grb090423 @falcennial @psneeze Yes! Scone as in Cone and Joan and Eoghan
Show threadCiara1d ago
@falcennial @grb090423 @psneeze Ok now that's an acceptable reason to say Skon, we'll let you off there
Show threadCiara1d ago
@grb090423 @psneeze I assume you didn't know that about each other beforehand or else you'd never have set up a home together, obviously
Show threadEye1d ago

@CiaraNi @psneeze

LOL! Ohhhh had we known!

😉 🤗

Show threadHighlandLawyer1d ago
@CiaraNi @psneeze
It is sgonn in the original Gàidhlig.
Show threadCiara1d ago
@HighlandLawyer @psneeze I see your Sgonn and raise you a Scóna
Show threadGJ Groothedde 🇪🇺1d ago
@CiaraNi
But do they get the order of clotted cream and jam right? I can't believe this all-important issue is being totally ignored in this discussion.
@psneeze