If Twitter is named so, then the first question is – what do you call a goldfish with eggs in it?
Pregnant is wrong, because no fetuses are being developed. Expecting is wrong, because it means pregnant. Mother goldfish is wrong, because we’ve only heard of mother hens. And mother f******.
The answer to the question, some argue, is a twit – the same word to describe silly people.
But silliness aside, how are goldfishes related to Twitter?
Because in Twitter, we say we tweet. But we also say we twit.
We tweet if our messages are like the chirp of a bird which wants attention. We twit if our messages are profuse as the hundreds of eggs that goldfishes lay.
So do we tweet, or do we twit?
Once answered, another question awaits – are we tweeting, or are we twitting?
But wait – when we use Facebook, we are Facebooking.
Instead of twitting, should we not be twittering? Or – gasp – tweetering?
And when birds chirp, we say they twitter. When birds are chirping, they are twittering. But a bird’s chirp is a tweet, not a twit.
Because a twit is a goldfish with eggs.
Why, why, why?
If we are not able to even resolve these fundamental issues and properly describe our actions on Twitter, how are we going to complete our COM201 Twitter assignments?
And if a goldfish with eggs is a twit, what is a frog with eggs, if there are also no pregnant or mother frogs?
What do you call a goldfish with eggs in it?
If Twitter is named so, then the first question is – what do you call a goldfish with eggs in it?
Pregnant is wrong, because no fetuses are being developed. Expecting is wrong, because it means pregnant. Mother goldfish is wrong, because we’ve only heard of mother hens. And mother f******.
The answer to the question, some argue, is a twit – the same word to describe silly people.
But silliness aside, how are goldfishes related to Twitter?
Because in Twitter, we say we tweet. But we also say we twit.
We tweet if our messages are like the chirp of a bird which wants attention. We twit if our messages are profuse as the hundreds of eggs that goldfishes lay.
So do we tweet, or do we twit?
Once answered, another question awaits – are we tweeting, or are we twitting?
But wait – when we use Facebook, we are Facebooking.
Instead of twitting, should we not be twittering? Or – gasp – tweetering?
And when birds chirp, we say they twitter. When birds are chirping, they are twittering. But a bird’s chirp is a tweet, not a twit.
Because a twit is a goldfish with eggs.
Why, why, why?
If we are not able to even resolve these fundamental issues and properly describe our actions on Twitter, how are we going to complete our COM201 Twitter assignments?
And if a goldfish with eggs is a twit, what is a frog with eggs, if there are also no pregnant or mother frogs?
Rate this:
Like this: