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Octopi (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Octopodes.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Octopussies

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Also, octopi. They're all "correct" due to the multiple original languages' grammar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've always preferred 'octopodes'. It's just such a fun word.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

After reading the children of time series, I choose to use octopodes simply due to the fact that they are beautifully narcissistic little bastards in those books.

Man is that a good, if gut wrenching series.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I should memorize the video

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you! I knew they were all correct, and I knew why, but I didn't have an authoritative source to point folks to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It used to be on the Merriam Webster YouTube channel but I think that editor left and for some reason it was taken down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Octopodes nuts?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Octopadeus?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I want to hug an octopus on molly, better if they share

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Speaking as an Australian….

No.

No you don’t.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

laughs in Mediterranean

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Octopuses are really good at doing heroin because they have lots of arms to choose from.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

It's all just one researcher and his best pal octopus taking all the biology budget to have a blast on the weekends.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I wish octopuses lived longer. I'd have an octopus friend.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's no "may" about it. Each octopus arm has its own little processing center to handle its unique movements, it's called the ganglia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Just like the butt brain in a t rex to manage walking. I see.