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English.
The word that's throwing you off is probably wont
wont
yeah, that one threw me for a loop and I consider my vocabulary to be fairly decent. I just assumed it was missing the apostroph to make it "won't". Thanks for clearing that up
Is this some word that's commonly used in some English speaking countries? I'm a native speaker and have never heard or seen this word ever being used.
The only people that are wont to use this are either somewhat pretentious/want to sound learned, or are using it for old timey comedic effect.
Learned is another word for wise or well taught, before anyone asks. It's said 'Learned', not 'learn-ed'.
As far as I know it's not commonly used anywhere, and is mostly used for effect.
I think it used to be more common in my parents' generation.
Per screenshots of the "skeet" = As can be understood from screenshots of the post, also known as a "skeet"
as folks on the butterfly app = (a name that) users of Bluesky
are wont to call their posts... = like to call their posts...
"Skeet" being a combination of "sky" and "tweet", which I hope you can figure out the origins of, and also a somewhat dirty word that the owners of Bluesky would really prefer people didn't use as the non-generic name for posts on their platform, but is also disturbingly accurate if you compare the conceptually similar word "disseminate" for the spreading of information.
I should probably have separated the above into two sentences somewhere.