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Nov 23, 2011
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endlesslydevised:

lingllama:

Octopodes
[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “ Explain to a friend that they made the common mistake of affixing a second declension Latin plural to the Greek word (Latinized into the third declension) “Octopus” ” Bottom text: “ Watch their face as they reassess the value of our friendship ”]

EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS

It’s octopuses.

endlesslydevised:

lingllama:

Octopodes

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “ Explain to a friend that they made the common mistake of affixing a second declension Latin plural to the Greek word (Latinized into the third declension) “Octopus” ” Bottom text: “ Watch their face as they reassess the value of our friendship ”]

EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS

It’s octopuses.

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  1. mmeemmee reblogged this from lingllama
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  8. tayloriusrex reblogged this from lingllama and added:
    can’t even tell you how many times I have done this :/ it’s octopodes, people. ‘octopuses’ is also acceptable. however,...
  9. youngliterati reblogged this from lingllama and added:
    declension, why not use...Latin inflection, thus octopi?
  10. tittybasket reblogged this from cunninglanguage and added:
    Exactly. English has never been all that fussy about where it pinches things from!
  11. cunninglanguage reblogged this from lingllama and added:
    paraphrase my historical linguistics professor, this is English, pluralise it however
  12. theawkwardxenoglossophile reblogged this from lingllama
  13. kaaaaahrlthulhu reblogged this from epicwinsauce
  14. epicwinsauce reblogged this from lingllama and added:
    Also have experienced this face. oh man I need...study more linguistics so I can...
  15. polyglotted reblogged this from lingllama and added:
    I think I’m in Love :)
  16. dulimano reblogged this from lingllama
  17. beyondperceptions reblogged this from lingllama and added:
    It is ALWAYS appropriate...say octopodes in conversation. Even if Chrome didn’t think it...
  18. xovvo reblogged this from lingllama and added:
    THIS IS MY LIFE.
  19. violet--dreams reblogged this from lynnyanne
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  22. its-sorcery reblogged this from lingllama and added:
    “it’s octopodes,” i whisper...you leave forever.
  23. ltcoblivious reblogged this from lingllama
  24. mandarose reblogged this from maiqilai
  25. maiqilai reblogged this from lingllama and added:
    I will now start...use “octopodes”
  26. skywillflyby reblogged this from lingllama
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  28. wordhord reblogged this from plenilune and added:
    Interestingly enough, it’s not a Greek word either, but an invented word from the English in the early modern era....
  29. plenilune reblogged this from sherlockable and added:
    eldritche | lingllama:...OMG ANNA AND I ACTUALLY HAD A REALLY LONG CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS...
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  31. brinaelegiraffe reblogged this from falsettofetish and added:
    I’ve done things like this, but with other words than “octopus.”
  32. falsettofetish reblogged this from last-of-the-time-cats and added:
    I have actually literally had this exact conversation. People’s eyes tend to glaze over right about when you get to the...