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474D@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  *Octopussies

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  • Im_old@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Only Japanese ones

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• monarch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I use all forms of octopi interchangeably just to piss off linguists.

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  • stray@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I feel like any linguist upset by non-prescriptive language needs to maybe reconsider their life choices. Imagine telling someone they’re painting incorrectly or being mad at the discovery of a new species.

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    • monarch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I meant to put the linguist at the end in quotes my bad on that. I was trying to refer to the self styled reddit “linguists” that you would see trying to correct people for using the wrong form of then/than where it was really not appropriate.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Octopi, octopuses, and octopods are all valid pluralizations of octopus in American English.

    Conversely, cacti is the only valid pluralization of cactus.

    Don’t worry, language itself pissed us off long before you did.

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  • murtaza64@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Linguists are probably the least likely people to get upset at someone using the “wrong” word. they might pull out their notebook and start asking you questions though

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    octopiussi

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 on your preferred version.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Octothingies is my favorite

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  • RBridger@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    To be pedantic, octopi comes from the misconception that octopus is a second-declension noun in Latin when it’s actually a third-declension noun. If you were writing Latin, you’d still want octopodes

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• MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Octopi?

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  • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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    • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’ll use whatever pluralodes I feel like!

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      • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Wow, look at all these plurapodes

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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      • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You want 8 pies? What?

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• PintOShenanigans@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Octopodes nuts

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  • 474D@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Title fixed.

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