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 ”]
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It’s octopuses.
(via depechemoses)
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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,...
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youngliterati reblogged this from lingllama and added:
declension, why not use...Latin inflection, thus octopi?
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tittybasket reblogged this from cunninglanguage and added:
Exactly. English has never been all that fussy about where it pinches things from!
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cunninglanguage reblogged this from lingllama and added:
paraphrase my historical linguistics professor, this is English, pluralise it however
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epicwinsauce reblogged this from lingllama and added:
Also have experienced this face. oh man I need...study more linguistics so I can...
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I think I’m in Love :)
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beyondperceptions reblogged this from lingllama and added:
It is ALWAYS appropriate...say octopodes in conversation. Even if Chrome didn’t think it...
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THIS IS MY LIFE.
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its-sorcery reblogged this from lingllama and added:
“it’s octopodes,” i whisper...you leave forever.
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maiqilai reblogged this from lingllama and added:
I will now start...use “octopodes”
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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....
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eldritche | lingllama:...OMG ANNA AND I ACTUALLY HAD A REALLY LONG CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS...
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brinaelegiraffe reblogged this from falsettofetish and added:
I’ve done things like this, but with other words than “octopus.”
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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...
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