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Re:Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy ... by sph on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:43PM (#36216447)
The problem with Mastodon is that some people still don't know how to spell it properly. It's not rocket science.
Re:Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy ... by tester457 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:14PM (#36216902)
The name okay. The problem is the friction new users have understanding and joing the platform.
Re:Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy ... by Macha on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:48PM (#36216524)
Not so sure about that, people unable to spell YouTube seemed to do more harm to Universal Tubing who owned utube.com than it did YouTube. If you hadn't heard of them before, how many ts in Twitter? Is TikTok spelt with the letter c?
Re:Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy ... by bamfly on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:30PM (#36217109)
People who've seen YouTube written down a couple times tend not to get it wrong. Twitter is a common dictionary word and I'd bet had a pretty low misspelling rate, if you'd asked people to spell it before the service Twitter even existed. TikTok, I think most people get after seeing it a few times, at worst.

Mastodon? It's a dictionary word, so it as that going for it—and yet, people see it a hundred times and still often misspell it. The pronunciation's just a bit too far from the spelling, at least in American English. Most folks say it as if it were spelt "mastadon", especially if they're not trying to enunciate carefully & precisely and (perhaps) don't know the correct spelling.

(I'm not weighing in on whether that's some kind of serious problem for Mastodon, but I do think it's worse than all your other examples, as far as likelihood of misspelling even after significant exposure—then again, web search smooths over most of that, for anything sufficiently popular)

Re:Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy ... by guraf on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:47PM (#36217330)
You are being downvoted but I agree, what's with people spelling it mastadon? That's not even how it's pronounced (in my English but non American country, at least), so is it a language thing? Is mastadon a real word in some languages?
Re:Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy ... by antonyt on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:17PM (#36218544)
In America its pronunciation is closer to "Mastadon." The second syllable sounds like "tuh."

You see the same thing with other words that have "o"s that function similarly. You'll hear Americans turning "o" into "uh" in Tyrann-o-saurus, p-o-tato, etc.

Re:Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy ... by sph on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:34AM (#36224384)
But that's not how it's written, is it? Given that English pronunciation rules are very different than how words are written, I would have thought native speakers would learn to actually look at a word and imitate the order of graphemes.

Especially if we're talking about an Internet thing: you've seen it in written form more often than you have heard it enunciated out loud. And seems like the iOS text prediction is also able to spell it the right way.

I don't care honestly, but as a non native English speaker I've never understood why natives make an enormous amount of banal spelling errors.