• Zozano@lemy.lol
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    2 days ago

    How does Africa/Burler have a horn?

    Is it referring to the Toto song?

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      2 days ago
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      The Horn of Africa is the name for the peninsula occupied largely by Somalia & Somaliland.

      A bugle is a brass instrument related to the trumpet. You wouldn’t call it a horn in an orchestral context, but in other contexts it could be. In jazz and popular music, any woodwind or brass would be part of the “horn section”. And in a historical military context any smallish roundish brass instrument could be a horn, it just needs to perform a signalling function.

      • kraftpudding@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Just fyi the spoiler tag works better when you have a space between it and the first/last word. It probably seems to be working for you, but it’s not on my end on sync and possibly other apps. I don’t know why, but usually the space fixes the problem. Just something to consider, no harm done.

        • ZagorathOP
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          Sync famously doesn’t do spoiler tags right. It still tries to implement spoilers with the Reddit syntax >!spoilered text!<. But Lemmy’s spoiler syntax is completely different:

          ::: spoiler Public Text
          spoilered text
          :::
          

          It looks like Sync half tries to convert the Lemmy spoiler syntax into the Reddit one, but does it poorly so it doesn’t actually work. I suggest you take the issue up with the Sync developers to encourage them to make their app work properly.