fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · edit-25 天前🐙 octopodes 🐙lemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1589arrow-down16
arrow-up1583arrow-down1image🐙 octopodes 🐙lemmy.dbzer0.comfossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · edit-25 天前message-square43fedilink
minus-squareNoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 天前Dont you dare use a Latin pluralization of a Greek root word!
minus-squareVenator@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 天前I’ll use whatever pluralodes I feel like!
minus-squaresnugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 天前Wow, look at all these plurapodes
minus-squareidiomaddict@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·5 天前Its origin is Greek, but it comes to us through Latin, so fuck it. Plus it’s language, and octopi is understood by fluent speakers
Octopi?
Dont you dare use a Latin pluralization of a Greek root word!
I’ll use whatever pluralodes I feel like!
Wow, look at all these plurapodes
There’s lodes of them!
Its origin is Greek, but it comes to us through Latin, so fuck it. Plus it’s language, and octopi is understood by fluent speakers
You want 8 pies? What?