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minus-squareNoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoDont you dare use a Latin pluralization of a Greek root word!
minus-squareVenator@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoI’ll use whatever pluralodes I feel like!
minus-squaresnugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoWow, look at all these plurapodes
minus-squareidiomaddict@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoIts origin is Greek, but it comes to us through Latin, so fuck it. Plus it’s language, and octopi is understood by fluent speakers
minus-squareNoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYou want 8 pies? What?
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 it’s language, and octopi is understood by fluent speakers
You want 8 pies? What?