Comment on Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’ | The highly intelligent cephalopods filled fishing nets and gobbled up crabs and lobsters in Devon and Cornwall this summer.

Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Lembot_0004@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or maybe the article was written by a sane person with basic self-esteem who refuses to use stupid arbitrary linguistic exceptions?

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  • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not very sane of an individual to purposely be misunderstood from lack of schooling. Perhaps said individual should look for an easier job then writing, if grammer and proper spelling is too difficult.

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  • Ibuthyr@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why bastardize a language? “Octopuses” makes my toenails curl up. It’s octopi.

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except it’s not Latin, it’s of Greek origin. So it’s octopodes.

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      • Ibuthyr@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Now I’m just plain embarrassed. I use Octopoden in German. No idea why I thought it should be octopi… I may have it mixed up with one of our customers (octopi brewing Co). Thanks for the correction!

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s Latinized Greek, and in English as a further bastardized loan word multiple plural forms are correct, including octopi, octopodes, and octopuses!

        I prefer octopussesi, personally.

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    • Lembot_0004@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      bastardize

      Removing exceptions is improving.

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      • FatLegTed@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How about ’Octopus army invades English coast’? instead.

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