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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • Ibuthyr@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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      • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        English speakers do all kinds of weird things with the plural of ‘octopus’

        I think I’ve seen everything except octopussies

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      • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Really any of those interpretations is just fine. Although I have my preference, I’m not gonna say anyone else is wrong.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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      • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Octopussoir.

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  • Lembot_0004@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    bastardize

    Removing exceptions is improving.

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    • FatLegTed@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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