Comment on English has too many words for animals
gnutrino@programming.dev 3 days agoDamn kids, in my day turtles lived in the sewer eating pizza and doing ninjutsu.
Comment on English has too many words for animals
gnutrino@programming.dev 3 days agoDamn kids, in my day turtles lived in the sewer eating pizza and doing ninjutsu.
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Those clearly were tortoises though :D
gnutrino@programming.dev 3 days ago
Technically they’re terrapins (specifically red-eared terrapins).
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!
marcos@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So, tortoises, and thus also turtles…
msfroh@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
But terrapins are not tortoises, since they’re semiaquatic, but are differentiated from common turtles by their presence in brackish water.