![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 ”]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv3lqir4Wu1qhh9hgo1_500.png)
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 ”]
yesway-appianway reblogged this from lingllama and added:
Note: the correct term in English dictionaries is octopuses. And now you know.
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My friends every time I go off on...‘linguistics spiel’
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LOLOLOLOL
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youngliterati reblogged this from lingllama and added:
declension, why not use...Latin inflection, thus octopi?
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puzzlecunt reblogged this from cunninglanguage and added:
Exactly. English has never been all that fussy about where it pinches things from!
cunninglanguage reblogged this from lingllama and added:
paraphrase my historical linguistics professor, this is English, pluralise it however
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epicwinsauce reblogged this from lingllama and added:
Also have experienced this face. oh man I need...study more linguistics so I can...
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polyglotted reblogged this from lingllama and added:
I think I’m in Love :)
dulimano reblogged this from lingllama and added:
életem!XD
beyondperceptions reblogged this from lingllama and added:
It is ALWAYS appropriate...say octopodes in conversation. Even if Chrome didn’t think it...
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xovvo reblogged this from lingllama and added:
THIS IS MY LIFE.
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inheritedloss reblogged this from lingllama and added:
OctoPODES.
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its-sorcery reblogged this from lingllama and added:
“it’s octopodes,” i whisper...you leave forever.
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maiqilai reblogged this from lingllama and added:
I will now start...use “octopodes”
