I mean with the stupid names, could you not?! carving out interest in this crowded space is a challenge onto itself, you don’t hafta shoot yourself in the foot from the get-go!
that aside, anyone got experience with the thing?
I mean with the stupid names, could you not?! carving out interest in this crowded space is a challenge onto itself, you don’t hafta shoot yourself in the foot from the get-go!
that aside, anyone got experience with the thing?
It’s a welsh word.
Not sure why the downvotes but Wikipedia says you are right.
“Cwtch is a Welsh word that means a cuddle or embrace, often associated with feelings of warmth and safety. It can also refer to a small space or cubbyhole for storing things safely.”
Asio on the cwtch website itself:
Cwtch /kʊtʃ/
Cwtch (/kʊtʃ/ - a Welsh word roughly translating to “a hug that creates a safe place”) is a decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging protocol that can be used to build metadata resistant applications.
How do you pronounce it?
Kutch. Pronounce the U like in “put”. The comment above that includes its definition has a link to the pronunciation of it if you’d prefer to hear it.
IPA is here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cwtch
Nty, I don’t like IPAs
thank you! I am also one of the dozens of people who can read, what are the odds we come across one another on lemmy of all places, huh?
while I have you here, would you say that giving unpronounceable welsh names to new entrants attempting to challenge established players with a decade+ strong foothold in this space is a) a prudent decision or b) hella stupid?
we got issues switching normies to signal which has been around forever, how’s tongue-breaker gonna make any progress?
To whom? Should Welsh people not use privacy software too? Stupid ass chauvinist position
In any case, the IPA above doesn’t seem “unpronounceable” at all to me as a native speaker of German and fluent speaker of English. The pronunciation isn’t intuitive from the spelling, that is quite a different thing from being unpronounceable.
I mean, just imagine you’re spitting game at cutie at the bar and things are cooking and you go “hit me up on hkmbljurgh” and all of a sudden fire and brimstone all around
kthulucthulhu appears wondering why you summonedhimthem you scream sorry bro wrong number bro kthulu goes its aight buthethey missed a dentist’s appointment because of this the barkeep is now pissed who’s gonna clean this up cutie is nowhere to be found…shoulda gone with signal is what I’m saying
Again, stupid chauvinist take. Not everyone speaks English and not everyone uses English pronunciations. Also, cwtch is a relatively popular loanword too, plenty of English speakers have learnt to say it.
You know most of the world finds English spellings hard to pronounce, right? You’re speaking in a language notorious for its inconsistent pronunciations (see “-ough”).
It’s also particularly fucked up to mock Welsh like that given that Welsh is one of the many languages with a long history of children being violently reprimanded for speaking their native language by English people.
To piggyback on this and apply chauvinistic reciprocity, why would you spit anything at some you find cute. They probably decided to leave with Cthulhu, who is confidently, unapologetically, Cthulhu.