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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.
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[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

I grew up with all French comics and cartoons, and it's so weird watching native englishers call like Tintin's dog "Snowy" or call Tintin "Tintin" for that matter.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Is Tintin not called Tintin??? I am a bit confused about the latter

[–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

So long i or what? I don't really ubderstand your answer

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 minutes ago (1 children)

In French it'd be closed to Tonton / Tantan but almost don't pronounce the n's.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

It sounds kind of like we pronounce sntntn. French spelling is odd

[–] wieson@feddit.org 1 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago) (1 children)

I just guess it's about French pronunciation. The tin is pronounced with a nasal long open vowel instead of a clear n.

PS you can go to french Wikipedia entry for Tintin and listen to it.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

I could not find it on the wikipedia but I did find other options to listen to it. It does not sound like whatever you wrote earlier. The i is nowhere to be found but the n is really there, just as you said unclear.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 hours ago

In Danish the dog's called "Terry" (probably because the translator considered that a cute name for a terrier) and has his profession (🤔) listed as "Astronaut, seaman" on Danish Wikipedia 😄

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Huh... I've always thought tintin a the name of a dog but I guess that's rin tin tin and that those are two competly unrelated things. TIL

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Are they a female dog in the French version? Or just have a feminine name?

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Terry is a gender neutral name

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

I might be in the wrong thread