Comment on English has too many words for animals

danda@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• esc@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But they are turtles, like every crow is a bird.

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  • Klear@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And every jackdaw is a crow!

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Here’s the thing…

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• blinfabian@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  in dutch theyre called landschildpad and zeeschildpad (landshelltoad and seashelltoad)

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  • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Shelltoad is a fantastic name for them

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  • JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But zeeschildpad doesn’t include things like box turtles that live near bodies of water but not all the time, right? I guess here in Belgium we just use “schildpad” for everything.

    It also sounds cooler to translate it to shield-toad lol

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    • blinfabian@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      idk what a box turtle even is 😭 but here in the netherlands we call all of them “schildpad” too. literally no normal human here will say “look a zeeschildpad” (except for biologists probably)

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• zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wait wait wait. Have we been lied to? Are Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo tortoises?

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• Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Tuuuurtle turtle-urtle-urtle, turtle urtle urtle urtle. GAH, IT’S NOT A TORTOISE

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• renzev@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Most humans live above ground level, you sound like your live in your mother’s basement. Doesn’t make you a different species, does it?

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  • MasterNerd@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So you’re just admitting you don’t understand taxonomy

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    • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Technically this is nor taxonomy, since we aren’t talking about relatedness. This is just linguistics.

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      Land dwelling evolved multiple times in turtles, like in box turtles, which are not in the clade of tortoises, but would fit the common definition of tortoise.

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