Same. As an American, I would be much less likely to use or spread good word about a product that centered around the act of "tooting". Our culture sees the word as silly, childish, and a bit gross. I could get used to it eventually, but if it's the first thing I see about the product, I'm probably going to find something else to use that doesn't make me think of farting or introduce fart terminology into my everyday word choice.
Being a native English speaker from another country I don't possess this association at all, and have to dig quite deep to remember that Americans do.
I do get tootsuite => toute de suite i.e. a sense of immediacy, the present moment, with greater impact for being a bilingual pun. Along with that, the onomatopoeic elephant.
Cynical take: notwithstanding the denial in the PR, that original author knew the scatological allusion, and that it has parochial scope, i.e. they actively intended to annoy Americans, and in particular those with a prim streak.
As a very young child & native American English speaker, I was told the rhyme,
Beans, beans, the magical fruit,
the more you eat, the more you toot.
That cemented the association with farts, but 'toot' as in 'toot your own horn' (idiom for self-promotion), or even just literally tooting a horn, are also strong associations. So it's not exclusively, or primarily, a word for farts to my ears – but that's one of the top few potential meanings.
Note, this is botanically incorrect. Leguminous plants, as compared to angiosperms generally (and most starkly when compared to those with pericarpal fruits), may have differential edibility: that is, beans are not the fruit; the seed pod is the fruit (i.e. the mature ovary of the flower), and beans are an edible seed contained within the pod. Some legumes with edible pods (notably phaseolus vulgaris, the "green bean" or haricot verts) are known as beans in the culinary vernacular, but this is solely by common name, and does not hold up to anatomical scrutiny.
Regular correspondents to this forum may also encounter Java beans, but be warned that their palatability is disputed, and ungoverned use, particularly in their enterprise form, can lead to buildup of toxic and irrevocable technical debt.
Yes, this is the rhyme I learned as a kid, warning against the gastrointestinal consequences of oligosaccharide consumption but extolling the cardioprotective nutrients they accompany.
The GP form I have never encountered before, and by my assessment falls short in pedagogical qualities.
It’s apparently a variant. I realized that the “magical” version was much more common than I’d expected a couple of years ago and did some informal research. It seems about evenly split, and I didn’t see any regional correlation.
I'm not surprised. That's why there are qualifiers.
It's not intended as smack talk asserting "My variation is better than yours!" (Throws down gloves.)
Sometimes, it's nigh impossible to readily come up with the wording that captures the myriad thoughts flitting about my mind and account for all possible social bits and potential misinterpretations. And I comment anyway, knowing it's likely to go sideways cuz hoomans.
Well, the entire discussion deriving from the proposed code change is ultimately debating the relative merits of a fart joke, so any contribution is bound to be a gas.
Yes. If you wanted to be charitable, the other connotation is tooting your own horn, which isn't that great either. Bragging is better than farts, though.
