Comment on English has too many words for animals

• gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Shelltoad is a fantastic name for them

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• JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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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