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by bonoboTP 2398 days ago
What a horrible name. How do I even pronounce it? "Double-u-tee social"? Doesn't quite roll off the tongue, especially for non-native English speakers.
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A bit tangent, but as a non-native English speaker, I always get frustrated that single W is pronounced "double you" and single Y is "why". In my non-native English tongue I would pronounced the name as something like "Weh-Teh Social"
"Wet Social" sounds like something very different.
I kinda thought it might be a play on WTF, so, "what the social".
"WikiTribune Social" or "W.T. Social."
They realise that it's a terrible name though, right?

WikiSocial might've done, I guess that's taken. But this is too long, unless it's supposed to be pronounced "woot-social"?

WT call Home
White Trash Social. Although that wouldnt be politically correct.
It's pronounced "The wikipedia guy social network" :)
dubtee social