Octopodes

Gary Wheeler

Feeling cranky today, Mr. Maunder? Hamsters getting you down? Or is it just the continual mucking out of the Lounge? I suggest: Bike.

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Henry Minute

I would have thought that it was the plural in Latin Latin.

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Maximilien

it's not octopussies ? i'm disapointed.

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Lost User

It was all that talk of bad tans. ;)

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Luc Pattyn

I doubt it very much. And there is a lot on the subject according to Google. It seems like Octopuses is common, Octopi ("Latin") too; Octopods and Octopodes are scientific. Here is one authority[^], note the required accent. Mind you, their Greek spelling is incorrect here: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/octopus. (once more the fail-to-paste-a-link-bug) :)

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Nagy Vilmos

Henry Minute wrote:

Latin Latin

Is that like Latin for people who stutter? [I have a Latin book beside me and I think any rendom sentence would be baned from the Lounge. The title is "How to Insult, Abuse & Insinuate in Classic Latin". It is a pure joy, like puella defututa.

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Henry Minute

Luc Pattyn wrote:

(once more the fail-to-paste-a-link-bug)

Odd innit? I had an instance earlier today, paste one link - all OK, paste another - total failure.

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Chris Maunder

http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0015-octopus.htm[^]

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Chris Maunder

Ah, if only. The weather here: miserable. (Best said with a bad French accent)

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Luc Pattyn

in my experience: 1. it works well when no text is selected (first paste link, then change the text it shows); 2. it fails seemingly randomly when text is selected (type text to become link text, select it, then make it a link by pasting a URL) 3. it seems to depend on where on the text line the selection is; first word works well most of the time, last word often fails. And then it shows rather infrequently, making it hard for a proper black-box investigation. :)

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Nish Nishant

Chris Maunder wrote:

The correct plural of Octopus in British English.

You've just pissed off some of our British members there who insist that what they speak is just English. :-D

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Chris Maunder

Reminds me of all the Canadians here who keep insisting I'm the one with the accent. If only they could here hear themselves! Crazy, I tell you. [Edit: Coffee! Stat!]

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Gary Wheeler

I think if Chris gets tweaked any further today, he's going to replace CP with a single Twitter feed.

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Nish Nishant · modified on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 4:32 PM

Chris Maunder wrote:

If only they could here themselves! Crazy, I tell you.

:laugh:

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Luc Pattyn

yup, that's the video I watched before posting. Did you miss the "they all forgot one thing" part? :)

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kinar

When I saw the word octopodes, I thought it should be pronounced octo-podes. After watching that video,...I now know it is pronounced oc-top-oh-dees (since it is greek). that is what I learned from that video However, I think I'll stick with Max's pluralization posted above...octopussies

Luc Pattyn

Gary Wheeler wrote:

a single Twitter feed

Maybe Verity Stob[^] would appreciate that. :)

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Chris Meech · modified on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 4:32 PM

Okay from now on, I'll type with an accent, too. That's much better, eh. :)

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Lost User

Dear, we don't need to. ;)

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Roger Wright

That sudden flash of knowledge has left me reeling; perhaps I should take the rest of the day off. :)

Will Rogers never met me.