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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2005-09-12 under ,

"I love making plurals of the word 'octopus'. It's 'octopuses' if you treat it like an English word. It's 'octopi' if you treat it like a Latin word (which is isn't, but a lot of people treat it like it is, because the Latin language stole it from Greek). It's 'octopodes' if you treat it like a Greek word (which it is, but it's been a long time since we stole it, so there). It's 'octopods' if you're just being a little bit geeky - it's derived from the taxonomic name- and it's 'octopussies' if you're being a lot silly. I admit to making up octopuddykittens." -- [livejournal.com profile] tamnonlinear, 2005-04-15

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posted by [identity profile] austin-dern.livejournal.com at 12:56pm on 2005-09-12

This brings to mind a nifty little exchange in an episode of Disney's Hercules series, which worked some pretty clever jokes in around the edges ... two of the supporting cast were along for the ride with Hercules. One cried out, ``We're being attacked by a couple cyclopses!''


Said the other supporting cast, ``The word is cyclopodes.''


``What difference does it make?!''


``I like to be precise.''


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posted by [personal profile] zenlizard at 02:16pm on 2005-09-12
Actually, it's "Octopodes" in either Latin or Greek: the Latin isn't masculine, it genetive, therefore "-podes".
 
posted by [identity profile] tamnonlinear.livejournal.com at 02:41pm on 2005-09-12
I fully admit to not knowing any Greek or Latin in any useful sense.

The taxomonic name is Octopoda, does that make a difference?
 
posted by [identity profile] tamnonlinear.livejournal.com at 02:39pm on 2005-09-12
*quirks eyebrow*

What brought that on?
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:55pm on 2005-09-12
I couldn't resist "octopuddykittens".
 
posted by [identity profile] nosebeepbear.livejournal.com at 06:38pm on 2005-09-12
I like to go with "more than one octopus."
 
posted by [identity profile] lpetrazickis.livejournal.com at 11:57pm on 2005-09-12
What do you scream when you are attacked by more than one moose?:)
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 01:48am on 2005-09-13
"Former US Attorney General!" Or if you're really frightened, "Anti-porn crusading twit!"

Thing is, you'll see them big critters coming. A pack of polygoose on the other hand might leap out at you from a bush by surprise.
 
posted by [identity profile] dptwisted.livejournal.com at 02:04am on 2005-09-13
Completely unrelated, but I heard this joke today and thought of you.

Three notes walk into a bar: a C, an E-flat, and a G. The bartender says "No minors." So, the E-flat leaves, and the C and G have a fifth between them.

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