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minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoat this point i just spite everyone and call them something like “octopodii” or “octopiuses”
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·7 months agoAlso, octopi. They’re all “correct” due to the multiple original languages’ grammar.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoi can do you one better: language doesn’t have rules, if it sounds good it’s valid, who cares
minus-squareblackluster117@possumpat.iolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 months agoI’ve always preferred ‘octopodes’. It’s just such a fun word.
minus-squareZron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 months agoAfter 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.
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoThank you! I knew they were all correct, and I knew why, but I didn’t have an authoritative source to point folks to.
minus-squarezqwzzle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoIt used to be on the Merriam Webster YouTube channel but I think that editor left and for some reason it was taken down.
Octopodes.
at this point i just spite everyone and call them something like “octopodii” or “octopiuses”
Octopussies
Also, octopi. They’re all “correct” due to the multiple original languages’ grammar.
i can do you one better: language doesn’t have rules, if it sounds good it’s valid, who cares
I’ve always preferred ‘octopodes’. It’s just such a fun word.
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.
I should memorize the video
Thank you! I knew they were all correct, and I knew why, but I didn’t have an authoritative source to point folks to.
It used to be on the Merriam Webster YouTube channel but I think that editor left and for some reason it was taken down.
Octopodes nuts?
Octopadeus?