The vatican needed a latin word for tweet, because the pope tweets. Or tweeted, I suppose, given the whole dead or dying situation. Anyway, they call them breviloquia (s breviloquium) which is honestly a great word even tho it’s not very brief itself. Given its nature and etymology I think we should be able to use it platform-independently and apply it to toots, skeets and even Truths as well. Anyway thank you for reading this breviloquium.

@jandi I’d say BQ

@jandi @marlies More like too many characters in "breviloquium" to write it in your breviloquium.

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Brekkie of course!

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ALT

@jandi @marlies I'd say Brev is the shortening. Breviloquium means brevity of speech, so it works in English, too.

@marlies Grammatically suspect and already a trademark, difficult task!

Edit: Trademark problem solved, they went bankrupt! There's a future for bq!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BQ_%28company%29

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Would be a nightmare in Canada, BQ is the federal political party, the Bloc Québecois

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@AlexanderVI @marlies brev it is then, I'm teaching my autocomplete right now.

@jandi one problem: brev means bruv which means mate/brother

@jandi @AlexanderVI @marlies I like brev because it also alludes to the short and concise nature of the posts

@mia https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

@jandi @marlies it would still be weird for people who used their products tho (my first smartphone!!)

@jandi @marlies pronounced beek

@jandi @marlies geez every runner, ex-runner or family member of a runner knows what BQ stands for

@callisto @marlies Ok, ok, we're picking brev, is brev something too? https://www.islandbridgerunner.com/post/what-does-it-mean-to-bq

@marlies @callisto @jandi mate it's hard to explain mate it's just like one day you'll just be wif your mates having a look in jd and you might fancy curry club at the 'Spoons but your lad Calum who's an absolute ledge and the archbishop of banterbury will be like 'brevs lets have a cheeky nandos instead." and you'll think "Top. Let's smash it."

@jandi @callisto @marlies "brev" is Swedish for letter, and they (at least the older ones) often use it for emails too! So that would work.

@jandi @callisto @marlies brev, let’s have a cheeky Nando’s.

@callisto @jandi @marlies (I sincerely apologise but your post gave me the excuse to bring this gem back from oblivion)

@mia @callisto @marlies No apologies, thanks, I loved it! Colorful writing!

@mia @callisto @marlies For today's other 9999: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/66021/new-meaning-cheeky-thats-got-americans-confused