Post by @smallsco@oldbytes.space

2023-02-14 05:16 UTC

The poll has ended! Thank you to everyone who boosted or left a comment. There were 194 votes in total, and the final results are: 72% - #SuperBowl and #SuperbOwl sound different in my screen reader 28% - they sound the same in my screen reader Screen readers where #SuperBowl and #SuperbOwl sounded different: - NVDA - VoiceOver on macOS/iOS - Orca with eSpeakNG (but pronounciation is wrong) - macOS with a British English voice - Android TalkBack with a Japanese voice Screen readers where #SuperBowl and #SuperbOwl sounded the same: - Festvox Lite (flite) - NaturalReader - macOS with an American English voice - Android TalkBack with English/French voices In conclusion: you should always CamelCase your hashtags! Especially if you're making a joke using homonyms (two words that are spelled the same, but sound different).

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@davidga@mastodon.xyz 2023-02-14 07:26

@smallsco@oldbytes.space My MacOS with a (female) American English voice sounds different.

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@henrik@ruby.social 2023-02-14 21:29

@Michael_Dickel@universeodon.com @smallsco@oldbytes.space That’s not what I remember from linguistics class or what Wikipedia says. Homonyms include homographs which are written the same but can (some say must) differ in pronunciation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homograph One could debate whether “SuperbOwl” counts as a “word” in this context.

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@henrik@ruby.social 2023-02-15 19:40

@Michael_Dickel@universeodon.com @smallsco@oldbytes.space If you’re saying that the term “homonym” often excludes homographs, that’s counter to what I was taught (and again, to what Wikipedia says, to appeal to crowdsourced authority 😁). The grammar of hashtags gets more interesting the more I think about it!

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