Comment on English has too many words for animals

meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Damn kids, in my day turtles lived in the sewer eating pizza and doing ninjutsu.

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  • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Those clearly were tortoises though :D

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    • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Technically they’re terrapins (specifically red-eared terrapins).

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      • MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins
        Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins
        Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins
        Heroes in a half-shell, Terrapin Power!

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So, tortoises, and thus also turtles…

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