*octopodes (yes I know octopuses is also correct but the technically correct version sounds cooler)
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Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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474D@lemmy.world 1 month ago
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
*Octopussies
Im_old@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Only Japanese ones
Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Depends on the language. Current standardized American English overwhelmingly list adds
-s
/-es
to make a plural noun. So “octopuses” would be technically correct with “octopodes” and “octopi” also accepted.If you’re writing Latin, you’d want octopi instead. If you’re writing Greek: octopodes.
But English is a democratic language, so feel free to vote often and early on your preferred version.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
at this point i feel the only sensible answer is to use the most nonsensical form that still sounds normal
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Octothingies is my favorite
RBridger@lemmygrad.ml 1 month ago
To be pedantic, octopi comes from the misconception that octopus is a second-declension noun in Latin when it’s actually a third-declension noun. If you were writing Latin, you’d still want octopodes
monarch@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I use all forms of octopi interchangeably just to piss off linguists.
stray@pawb.social 1 month ago
I feel like any linguist upset by non-prescriptive language needs to maybe reconsider their life choices. Imagine telling someone they’re painting incorrectly or being mad at the discovery of a new species.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Octopi, octopuses, and octopods are all valid pluralizations of octopus in American English.
Conversely, cacti is the only valid pluralization of cactus.
Don’t worry, language itself pissed us off long before you did.
murtaza64@programming.dev 1 month ago
Linguists are probably the least likely people to get upset at someone using the “wrong” word. they might pull out their notebook and start asking you questions though
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
octopiussi
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Octopi?
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dont you dare use a Latin pluralization of a Greek root word!
PintOShenanigans@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Octopodes nuts
474D@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I kinda love how this only works if you know the correct pronunciation. For those that don’t, it’s ock-top-oh-deez
fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Title fixed.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
An octopus stole the pixels, huh
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“the lab’s pet octopus fucked with us in a type of fuckery as yet undocumented: part 726a” just doesn’t have the same oomph
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How me and my best lab buddy spent our summer blowing the research budget.
- by Oscar T. Octopus
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Who doesn’t want to cuddle on ecstasy?
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
My cat, always. That little fucker just wants to dance.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Octopuses are awesome. I wonder if they are like the cats of the sea.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 month ago
How do you people share webp links to messaging apps? Preview never shows and sometimes the image doesnt open
fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The work around I do is save them on my phone, then sligly edit them, e.g. do a little crop on the side then resave then it seems to work for whatever reason.
Wildfire0Straggler3@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Who thinks about giving an octopus ecstasy??
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 month ago
Jacobs is a professor at the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, and in 1976 he and a team from the university’s psychology department set out to study how LSD affected felines. That might seem like a bizarre research topic, but hey, it was 1976, they had this acid, they had these cats—what else were they going to do?
Lots of eild experiments giving drugs to animals.
kunegis@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Sure, let’s write a proposal for LSD-based feline experimentation, give the cats just catnip and keep the LSD for ourselves.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The crack spider’s bitch, Environment Canada Wildlife Service.
tja@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Scientists
smeg@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Scientists smart enough to get approval for buying ecstasy for research purposes!
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The same person who’d hug a tripping octopus.
moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com [bot] 1 month ago
You know stories about Hofmann taking some bike trip while being high.