Yall should remove some of these animal words and instead add different words for like the 5 different meanings of "spring"
I always thought turtles mostly live in the water and tortoises mostly lived on land.
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2026
213 points (89.0% liked)
Lemmy Shitpost
39273 readers
3751 users here now
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means:
-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
1.Memes
10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)
Reach out to
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
The good ol' "All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises"
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(11 replies)
A turtle lives in water, a tortoise lives on land. A turtle's not a tortoise, it's not hard to understand.
But they are turtles, like every crow is a bird.
And every jackdaw is a crow!
in dutch theyre called landschildpad and zeeschildpad (landshelltoad and seashelltoad)
But zeeschildpad doesn't include things like box turtles that live near bodies of water but not all the time, right? I guess here in Belgium we just use "schildpad" for everything.
It also sounds cooler to translate it to shield-toad lol
Shelltoad is a fantastic name for them
load more comments
(4 replies)
German: that toad looking thing has a shield on it
Det är samma för sköldpaddor.
But also my Swedish is terrible, so that might be completely wrong.
Dutch as well, schildpad literally translates to shielded toad.
Tortoises are Turtles, but not all Turtles are Tortoises.
This isn't an English thing, this is a taxonomy thing. It should be the same in any language, just with different words used.
Both are translated "tortue" in french However to be fair, it could be specified "Tortue marine" and "Tortue terrestre"
load more comments
(1 replies)
Simple!
Turtle: pretty chill dude cruising the East Australian Current
Tortoise: teaching Pandas Kung-Fu
Damn kids, in my day turtles lived in the sewer eating pizza and doing ninjutsu.
shakes cane
Those clearly were tortoises though :D
Technically they're terrapins (specifically red-eared terrapins).
Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins
Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins
Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins
Heroes in a half-shell, Terrapin Power!
Would be simpler just to call them turtles and landturtles.
How about "dry shelly boys" and "wet shelly boys?"
What about mine turtles?
The biggest difference is that turtles live in and around water, while tortises are entirely land based.
Not to be confused with the rare tortups, which spends nearly their entire life in flight.
Tortoises are land animals. Simple.
Frogs and toads might be a better one - there's no systematic difference except toads are ugly.
All tortoises are turtles (but not all turtles are tortoises) from a biology point of view. Tortoises specifically being exclusively land-based members of the turtle (Testudines) order. So there is a difference.
And “spring” doesn’t really have different meanings - as per the root of the word, it always means some variant of “to burst forth”. There’s lots of different definitions for the word but they’re all rooted in the same place, from an etymology point of view.
The season bursting forth from the winter darkness and cold, the metal coil as it bursts forth when released from compression, the source of water as it bursts forth from the ground, bursting forth someone out of jail, etc.
Homographs are the real problem - when two different words, over time, become spelled the same.
Sow, lead, close, bear. All have multiple etymologies where different words eventually became spelled the same. Those are the worst!
English is a truly crazy mashup of Latin, Greek, French, German, Celtic, Norse and more.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Simple. One can be thrown into water and it'll be OK. The other...not so much.
They are waaaaaay different what are you talking about..
My box turtle mostly lives on soil, although he enjoys a paddle and soak in his water. But the main difference from a tortoise is that he's omnivorous, needing protein like bugs, whereas they are herbivores.
load more comments
(4 replies)
One is an animal and the other a military formation, duh.
Easy! A turtle is flippy flips and a tortoise is clompy clomps.
If you think "spring" is bad, go check how many different meanings there are for the word "set".
"off" is one my favourites. The alarm went OFF so we had to turn it OFF. It means the opposite of itself.
"Sanction" is another example. Your actions were not sanctioned by us, so as retaliation we're introducing sanctions against you.
load more comments
(3 replies)
The spring comment is valid.
view more: next ›