Postato su Giovedì, 19 Gennaio 2012

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 ”] THIS IS MY LIFE.

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 ”]

THIS IS MY LIFE.

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  1. noxvox ha rebloggato questo post da lightninging e ha aggiunto:
    …technically octopuses, octopi, and yes, octopodes are all accurate plural forms of octopus
  2. lightninging ha rebloggato questo post da intpemotionsareoverrated
  3. intpemotionsareoverrated ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama
  4. nunc-iam-illa-non-vult ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama
  5. yesway-appianway ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama e ha aggiunto:
    Note: the correct term in English dictionaries is octopuses. And now you know.
  6. chadster987 ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama
  7. life-isnotaparagraph ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama e ha aggiunto:
    My friends every time I go off on...‘linguistics spiel’
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  18. caprido ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama e ha aggiunto:
    LOLOLOLOL
  19. alibrariangoestoikea ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama
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  21. youngliterati ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama e ha aggiunto:
    declension, why not use...Latin inflection, thus octopi?
  22. puzzlecunt ha rebloggato questo post da cunninglanguage e ha aggiunto:
    Exactly. English has never been all that fussy about where it pinches things from!
  23. cunninglanguage ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama e ha aggiunto:
    paraphrase my historical linguistics professor, this is English, pluralise it however
  24. kaaaaahrl ha rebloggato questo post da epicwinsauce
  25. epicwinsauce ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama e ha aggiunto:
    Also have experienced this face. oh man I need...study more linguistics so I can...
  26. polyglotted ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama e ha aggiunto:
    I think I’m in Love :)
  27. dulimano ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama e ha aggiunto:
    életem!XD
  28. beyondperceptions ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama e ha aggiunto:
    It is ALWAYS appropriate...say octopodes in conversation. Even if Chrome didn’t think it...
  29. xovvo ha rebloggato questo post da lingllama e ha aggiunto:
    THIS IS MY LIFE.