Comment on English has too many words for animals

• gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, tortoises, and thus also turtles…

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    • msfroh@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But terrapins are not tortoises, since they’re semiaquatic, but are differentiated from common turtles by their presence in brackish water.

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      • Klear@quokk.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fuck paraphyletic groups. All my homies hate paraphyletic groups.

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