Comment on Octopi

SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Dufurson@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Octopussies

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• tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also, octopi. They’re all “correct” due to the multiple original languages’ grammar.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i can do you one better: language doesn’t have rules, if it sounds good it’s valid, who cares

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• blackluster117@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve always preferred ‘octopodes’. It’s just such a fun word.

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  • Zron@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    After reading the children of time series, I choose to use octopodes simply due to the fact that they are beautifully narcissistic little bastards in those books.

    Man is that a good, if gut wrenching series.

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• zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I should memorize the video

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  • tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thank you! I knew they were all correct, and I knew why, but I didn’t have an authoritative source to point folks to.

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    • zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It used to be on the Merriam Webster YouTube channel but I think that editor left and for some reason it was taken down.

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  at this point i just spite everyone and call them something like “octopodii” or “octopiuses”

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• Ultraviolet@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Octopodes nuts?

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• Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Octopadeus?

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