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Probably because they're parsing it as masta+don rather than mast+odon, and word-final schwa[0] is written with a "a". Compare eg "arenadon", "pastadon", or oth
by a1369209993 3y ago
Probably because they're parsing it as masta+don rather than mast+odon, and word-final schwa[0] is written with a "a". Compare eg "arenadon", "pastadon", or other somethinga+"don" psuedo-portmanteaus.
0: I assume they don't pronounce it as mas-TO-don, since that would be a rather bizzare stress pattern, so the "o" generally gets weakened to a schwa as is typical for unstressed vowels.
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- nightpool 3y ago> somethinga+"don" psuedo-portmanteaus. See, I think this is definitely why I'm confused, because I can't for the life of me think of anything that fits this pattern. Are you talking about japanese onamonapias, like kabedon? that's the only word I can think of with an ending that might possibly be analyzed like that. a quick search of wiktionary for words ending in "adon" doesn't turn up anything obvious that might fit that pattern either. Could you give some examples?