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🐙 octopodes 🐙 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Who thinks about giving an octopus ecstasy??

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Jacobs is a professor at the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, and in 1976 he and a team from the university’s 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 cats—what else were they going to do?

Lots of wild experiments giving drugs to animals.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Sure, let's write a proposal for LSD-based feline experimentation, give the cats just catnip and keep the LSD for ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The crack spider's bitch, Environment Canada Wildlife Service.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Scientists

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Scientists smart enough to get approval for buying ecstasy for research purposes!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

and then you have the ones that give LSD to dolphins and jerking them off

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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

You know stories about Hofmann taking some bike trip while being high.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (7 children)

*octopodes (yes I know octopuses is also correct but the technically correct version sounds cooler)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

*Octopussies

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Only Japanese ones

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Depends on the language. Current standardized American English overwhelmingly list adds -s/-es to make a plural noun. So “octopuses” would be technically correct with “octopodes” and “octopi” also accepted.

If you’re writing Latin, you’d want octopi instead. If you’re writing Greek: octopodes.

But English is a democratic language, so feel free to vote often and early by using your preferred version.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

at this point i feel the only sensible answer is to use the most nonsensical form that still sounds normal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Octothingies is my favorite

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

To be pedantic, octopi comes from the misconception that octopus is a second-declension noun in Latin when it's actually a third-declension noun. If you were writing Latin, you'd still want octopodes

[+] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Octopi, octopuses, and octopods are all valid pluralizations of octopus in American English.

Conversely, cacti is the only valid pluralization of cactus.

Don’t worry, language itself pissed us off long before you did.

[–] murtaza64 1 points 2 months ago

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

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

octopiussi

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Octopi?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dont you dare use a Latin pluralization of a Greek root word!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll use whatever pluralodes I feel like!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow, look at all these plurapodes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

There's lodes of them!

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

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

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

You want 8 pies? What?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Octopodes nuts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I kinda love how this only works if you know the correct pronunciation. For those that don't, it's ock-top-uh-deez

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Title fixed.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

An octopus stole the pixels, huh

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

"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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

How me and my best lab buddy spent our summer blowing the research budget.

by Oscar T. Octopus

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who doesn't want to cuddle on ecstasy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

My cat, always. That little fucker just wants to dance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Octopuses are awesome. I wonder if they are like the cats of the sea.

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

How do you people share webp links to messaging apps? Preview never shows and sometimes the image doesnt open

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

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.