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🐙 octopodes 🐙

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🐙 octopodes 🐙

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    *octopodes (yes I know octopuses is also correct but the technically correct version sounds cooler)

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        Well, we can’t have all the octopodes nuts having their secret octopodes (related?) discussions with their own secret language like the word “octopods”, now can we?

        We can’t keep letting them get away with it!

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      *Octopussies

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        Only Japanese ones

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      Depends on the language. Current standardized American English overwhelmingly list adds -s/-es to make a plural noun. So “octopuses” would be technically correct with “octopodes” and “octopi” also accepted.

      If you’re writing Latin, you’d want octopi instead. If you’re writing Greek: octopodes.

      But English is a democratic language, so feel free to vote often and early by using your preferred version.

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        at this point i feel the only sensible answer is to use the most nonsensical form that still sounds normal

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        Octothingies is my favorite

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        I feel like any linguist upset by non-prescriptive language needs to maybe reconsider their life choices. Imagine telling someone they’re painting incorrectly or being mad at the discovery of a new species.

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        Octopi, octopuses, and octopods are all valid pluralizations of octopus in American English.

        Conversely, cacti is the only valid pluralization of cactus.

        Don’t worry, language itself pissed us off long before you did.

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        octopiussi

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        Linguists are probably the least likely people to get upset at someone using the “wrong” word. they might pull out their notebook and start asking you questions though

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      Octopi?

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        Dont you dare use a Latin pluralization of a Greek root word!

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          I’ll use whatever pluralodes I feel like!

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            Wow, look at all these plurapodes

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              There’s lodes of them!

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          Its origin is Greek, but it comes to us through Latin, so fuck it. Plus it’s language, and octopi is understood by fluent speakers

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            You want 8 pies? What?

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      Octopodes nuts

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        I kinda love how this only works if you know the correct pronunciation. For those that don’t, it’s ock-top-uh-deez

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      Title fixed.

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