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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
One of my favorite things in life is using Latin or Greek plurals on words that it makes absolutely no sense to use them on, and do not follow the rules of any language naturally involved.
I had steak and potati for dinner last night. Just one steak, though, I cannot eat multiple steakices
Reminds me of a joke:
A Roman soldier walks into a bar and says, "I'll have a martinus"
Bartender says, "don't you mean a martini?"
The Roman says. "if I wanted more than one I would've asked for it!"
I also do this! My personal top 3 are:
Jesus - Jesi
Bus - Bi
Penis - Penorum
Penis - Penorum
WROOOOONG! Now write the full declension table on that wall. And make sure to draw some pictures with it, so you never forget the word!
People called Romanes, they go, the house?!
It's the genitive! Genitive! Which makes the plural.. um! Penum! Penum! Romanorum penum amplitudines non magni sunt!
c===3, c===3, c===3.
Poetry was made today.
For decades now, my wife and I have used "Kleeni" as the plural of "Kleenex".
Looks like you beat us to level 7
Its whatever your heart is telling you.
And if folks knew what you meant, it's fine
Any mistake I make is actually just my dialect
Don't bother correcting my English grammar, as I have no respect for this language <3
That is what 'descriptive' in level 4 means
American English: "All of the above are valid."
"Even 'octopussies?'"
American English: "...sure."
"even 'octopussies'?"
american english:
Octopoden!
There were manny of them! Manny much octopoden!
2Ο: two pi
Ο: one pus
It's technically octopods
This is true for the scientific sense that it's order Octopoda (e.g. the plural for members of Hexapoda is "hexapods" and likewise "decapods" for Decapoda), but then it's kind of like saying the plural for "lobster" is "nephropids". The names are close for Octopoda and octopus, but it's still taking the colloquial name and pluralizing it into its scientific name. It's not specifically "to bring it in line with cephalopod"; that's just how generic names of members of taxa ending in 'poda' work generally.
Strictly speaking, "octopods" is the plural of "octopod".
Once I learned that βoctopodesβ is pronounced oct-TOP-o-dees not OCT-uh-pohds it became my pluralization of choice.
Octopodes nuts
Octopodes nuts
2 octopus = 1 hexadecipus
4 Quadropus = 8 bipus
Now I'm afraid to but too curious not to ask where might I find the octogoose?
In hell, next to cerberus probably.
Student: "language is prescriptive not descriptive"
Teacher: "you fail 3rd grade spelling"
And I absolutely support keeping people back who believe English should be guided and evolved through "Likes".
Putting aside the technicalities (it is not language that is prescriptive or descriptive, but linguistics), that's a widespread position among perfectly literate people, including professional linguists. Nothing to do with the number of "likes".
Just like meese is the plural of moose
Cephalopus
I thought it was octopuxen?
Level 10: all forms are valid as long as enough people use them. The currently most used forms are octopuses and octopi, both valid, but octopi is malformed, so octopuses is preferred. Octopussses and octopii and rare variants of those. Also correct, but rarely used.
Octopodes is also correct, but considered pedantic.
Level 11: Just use what you are used to.
Octopiss
It should just refer to the number of tentacles. So, for two of them, it would be sΔdecimpus
Octopuses have limbs known as "arms."
Tentacles are a different thing, like the two that squid have (the rest are also arms.)
As a native greek speaker, I find anything other than "octopuses" to be silly. In greek we don't say (any more) octopodes, we say "chtapodia" (the "ch" is the canonical (ELOT) transliteration of the letter Ο).
Merriam Webster's response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s166nC_hiZ0
