They would mostly wear hats.
Maybe a tiny skirt on the arm that is a penis
Why the fuck would octopuses have to wear clothes?! Come to think of it… why do humans have to wear clothes?
I don’t.
flaunts
If that’s the reason why are you doing it in summer?
If you say protection from sun, how about warm cloudy day?
You live in a warm place, I think
There is no suitable place for an Octopus to wear either pants or a skirt. Octopuses are almost entirely made of face. There is no torso, no waist, no lower body. We call the appendages around the mouth “arms” (not “legs”) but they are more analogous to prehensile whiskers. I think they would be more likely to wear a cap or headband. A balaclava would be interesting.
An octopus with a helmet would be unstoppable
Many octopodes can change the color and pattern of their skin at will.
Our clothing and tattoos are but crude facsimiles of their capabilities. Cephalopods have no need of such frivolities.
“Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!”
Squiddly Diddly just Winnie The Pooed it
They’d wear swimsuits, of course. Who wears skirts or pants in the water?
England would still force them to change into trousers on the mainland.
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…when a Scot wearing a kilt travelled to the mainland, they’d have to change into trousers, There’s changerooms still standing along the coast…
Octopuses have 8 arms and no legs. They’d probably wear halter tops.
I guess an octopus skirt is more like a poncho.
Why wouldn’t they just wear stylish hats?
Now that’s a proper hat. Shelter yourself and 6 of your friends from sun or rain!
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Pants are a status symbol in octopus society. Custom tailored, and you have servants to help you put them on.
I think servants to help put them on are pretty much a necessity.
Ain’t nobody got time to put 8 legs though 8 pant legs.
octopodes
or octopi,I mean octopuses is correct too, but less fun
octopi is wrong because octopus is Greek and not latin
Yeah but we’re using English which doesn’t follow Greek spelling rules.
Also, this.
And that’s why octopuses is correct. Octopi is not a derivation of octopus nor do we use “i” as a plural ending in English.
Sure we do, on occasion anyway. Cacti, fungi, alumni, syllabi, loci, foci, radii, moduli, stimuli, uteri, papyri, nuclei, termini.
Language isn’t about being “correct”, as there’s no truly objective standard. Rather, it’s about being understood. But I guess you didn’t watch that video.
Every single plural you list is derived straight from latin. If you created a neologism for a previously non-existent concept you would pluralize it with “s” in English eg email becomes emails not emali. The “i” as a plural is only for words taken straight from Latin.
I watched it. I don’t place any value on youtube videos made by people speaking outside their expertise.
The “i” as a plural is only for words taken straight from Latin.
Sure, but we use it. We adopted those words without altering that form. You said we don’t use it in English, full stop, so I gave 13 counterexamples.
I don’t place any value on youtube videos made by people speaking outside their expertise.
I don’t think my eyes can roll any harder.
We don’t use it in English. We just retain the latin plural for Latin words. We don’t use Latin plurals for Greek words that use a different standard for pluralization.
You made an appeal to authority when you provided the Steven Fry video. Fry is not by any standard an expert on the English language or linguistics. He is an actor and he has written non-academic pieces that are not on linguistics.
There’s no reason to roll your eyes when someone rejects your non-expert source as it is an appeal to authority.
I prefer the original, more correct, “octopizzle.”
TIL: I thought it was acceptable
That gets down to what you mean by “acceptable”. Octopi is not a natural derivation of octopus as the plural is octopodes just like “aint” is not a natural derivation of any form of the verb “is” BUT in both aint and octopi’s case most understand those words so they might be acceptable depending.
