Re:The startup culture at Posterous
by Barnabas on Thursday October 01, 2009 @04:18PM
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When I saw the vid, I just realized I've been pronouncing "Posterous" wrong all this time. I assumed it was long o, as in "post". But to hear them pronounce it, it rhymes with preposterous. My way seems better to me, but what do I know.
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I'm the opposite, I had been pronouncing it correctly, but thinking the whole time i was incorrect and it was supposed to start with the sound post!
Their original tagline was something along the lines of "it's preposterously easy to use." (I say it as "post-erous" too, don't worry).
If anyone tries to correct you on the pronunciation maybe you can tell them:
"Post-erous, posterous, smackerous... They're too busy putting in new features to care about stuff like that. They care about results, not pronunciations. That's the start-up way."
(Unless of course it's Garry Tan trying to correct you on it.)
I still call it post-erous, despite knowing better.
A friend with a Russian accent just pronounced it hilariously today - something like Post-air-ee-ous. I think they should roll with that!