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🐙 octopodes 🐙 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] 474D@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

*octopodes (yes I know octopuses is also correct but the technically correct version sounds cooler)

[-] HappyFrog 15 points 1 month ago
[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Only Japanese ones

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Depends on the language. Current standardized American English overwhelmingly list adds -s/-es to make a plural noun. So “octopuses” would be technically correct with “octopodes” and “octopi” also accepted.

If you’re writing Latin, you’d want octopi instead. If you’re writing Greek: octopodes.

But English is a democratic language, so feel free to vote often and early by using your preferred version.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

at this point i feel the only sensible answer is to use the most nonsensical form that still sounds normal

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Octothingies is my favorite

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Dont you dare use a Latin pluralization of a Greek root word!

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 month ago

I'll use whatever pluralodes I feel like!

[-] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Wow, look at all these plurapodes

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 month ago

There's lodes of them!

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You want 8 pies? What?

[-] PintOShenanigans@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago
[-] 474D@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I kinda love how this only works if you know the correct pronunciation. For those that don't, it's ock-top-uh-deez

[-] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago
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