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[Blackrat]

When in doubt, ask yourself, What Would Diogenes Do.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Someone just published a scientific paper positing that octopi may literally be from outer space...

This is going nowhere good.

 

[Aeson]

When in doubt, ask yourself, What Would Diogenes Do.

When in doubt, nuke it from orbit.

 

[trappedslider]

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[Dog Moon]

Someone just published a scientific paper positing that octopi may literally be from outer space...

This is going nowhere good.

Do you have proof that they are not? Maybe he's onto something and the rest of us are the ones refusing to listen to reason.

 

[Aeson]

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The bird must be from Chernobyl

 

[Aeson]

I don't know where octopi come from. Octopuses come from the ocean. Octopi sounds like some made up name.

 

[Blackrat]

The problem with octopi is, is that octopus comes etymologically from greek, not from latin. Therefore octopi is wrong. Octopuses is fine, though the proper pluralisation would be octopodes.

 

[Aeson]

The problem with octopi is, is that octopus comes etymologically from greek, not from latin. Therefore octopi is wrong. Octopuses is fine, though the proper pluralisation would be octopodes.

I've heard the explanation before. That's why I was attempting to tease him about octopi (my phone corrected to octopu. I think that's octo droppings.) Octopuses is proper in English. You're correct about the Greek. But I think in common vernacular all three pluralisation are accepted.

 

[Aeson]

My mom told me my sister has trouble catching her breath just walking from her bed to the bathroom. Her husband is having few problems. It's really odd. He's older (50), smokes and vapes like a chimney, drinks only Monster and Mountain Dew, under weight, and unvaccinated. She's 45, smokes and vapes like a chimney, over weight, and eats a slightly better diet, and vaccinated. Yet she's having the worst case of it.