am i the only one who gets really annoyed when people persistently call it "mastadon" instead of "mastodon"
@Felthry we've been practicing being chill with variant spellings because a friend of ours gets super uncomfortable with reflexive spelling and grammar corrections?
but we see where you're coming from
"mastadon" is ... phonetic but jarringly nonstandard
@packbat it just tends to really bug us when something is spelled wrong, and for some reason this one worse than most
@packbat I wouldn't consider it phonetic either, but perhaps in some dialects
@Felthry *records zirself on zir phone experimentally*
The vowel we use seems to be plausibly spelled with an "a" there, so yeah - I guess our dialect is one that pronounces it that way?
@Felthry *nods*
yeah, that's valid
part of why we try to spell things properly is because we know /we/ were really sensitized to unexpected variations, and "mastadon" doesn't strike us as an entertaining variant
@Felthry I think I've been using them interchangeably because I cannot remember for the life of me, haha