Why do so many people write Mastadon instead of Mastodon? (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 year ago by alex@jlai.lu to c/mastodon@lemmy.ml

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This has become a pet peeve of mine and as a non-native English speaker I just don't understand why so many people make that typo in the first place- what is it?

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[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

mastodon is latin

[-] brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, words have etymology, but it doesn't really change anything and doesn't make latin, french, whatever-origin loanwords not be english or whatever the language is they're loaned to. You can't say "...well ackshually guillotine isn't english, it's french".

PS. It was a dumb joke.

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

calm down boy

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