That's a classic. I love how it starts serious and then goes into absurdity really fast. Like when the 'crack spider thinks building webs is for suckas and he just waits for the caffeine spider to tire out before busting a cap in his ass...
She wasn't even a scientist. She just kinda showed up, made friends with the research facility, and convinced them to let her try teaching the dolphin to speak.
Ironically her "method" did start to show some success
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?
Depends on the language. Current standardized American English overwhelmingly list adds -s/-es to make a plural noun. So âoctopusesâ would be technically correct with âoctopodesâ and âoctopiâ also accepted.
If youâre writing Latin, youâd want octopi instead. If youâre writing Greek: octopodes.
But English is a democratic language, so feel free to vote often and early by using your preferred version.
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.
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
The work around I do is save them on my phone, then sligly edit them, e.g. do a little crop on the side then resave then it seems to work for whatever reason.
Who thinks about giving an octopus ecstasy??
Jacobs is a professor at the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, and in 1976 he and a team from the universityâs psychology department set out to study how LSD affected felines. That might seem like a bizarre research topic, but hey, it was 1976, they had this acid, they had these catsâwhat else were they going to do?
Lots of wild experiments giving drugs to animals.
Sure, let's write a proposal for LSD-based feline experimentation, give the cats just catnip and keep the LSD for ourselves.
The crack spider's bitch, Environment Canada Wildlife Service.
That's a classic. I love how it starts serious and then goes into absurdity really fast. Like when the 'crack spider thinks building webs is for suckas and he just waits for the caffeine spider to tire out before busting a cap in his ass...
Scientists
and then you have the ones that give LSD to dolphins and jerking them off
She wasn't even a scientist. She just kinda showed up, made friends with the research facility, and convinced them to let her try teaching the dolphin to speak.
Ironically her "method" did start to show some success
You know stories about Hofmann taking some bike trip while being high.
*octopodes (yes I know octopuses is also correct but the technically correct version sounds cooler)
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!
*Octopussies
Only Japanese ones
Depends on the language. Current standardized American English overwhelmingly list adds
-s/-esto make a plural noun. So âoctopusesâ would be technically correct with âoctopodesâ and âoctopiâ also accepted.If youâre writing Latin, youâd want octopi instead. If youâre writing Greek: octopodes.
But English is a democratic language, so feel free to vote often and early by using your preferred version.
at this point i feel the only sensible answer is to use the most nonsensical form that still sounds normal
Octothingies is my favorite
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.
Octopi, octopuses, and octopods are all valid pluralizations of octopus in American English.
Conversely, cacti is the only valid pluralization of cactus.
Donât worry, language itself pissed us off long before you did.
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
octopiussi
Octopi?
Dont you dare use a Latin pluralization of a Greek root word!
I'll use whatever pluralodes I feel like!
Wow, look at all these plurapodes
There's lodes of them!
Its origin is Greek, but it comes to us through Latin, so fuck it. Plus itâs language, and octopi is understood by fluent speakers
You want 8 pies? What?
Octopodes nuts
I kinda love how this only works if you know the correct pronunciation. For those that don't, it's ock-top-uh-deez
Title fixed.
An octopus stole the pixels, huh
"the lab's pet octopus fucked with us in a type of fuckery as yet undocumented: part 726a" just doesn't have the same oomph
How me and my best lab buddy spent our summer blowing the research budget.
Who doesn't want to cuddle on ecstasy?
My cat, always. That little fucker just wants to dance.
Octopuses are awesome. I wonder if they are like the cats of the sea.
How do you people share webp links to messaging apps? Preview never shows and sometimes the image doesnt open
The work around I do is save them on my phone, then sligly edit them, e.g. do a little crop on the side then resave then it seems to work for whatever reason.