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[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 week ago

I'll use whatever pluralodes I feel like!

Wow, look at all these plurapodes

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 week ago

There's lodes of them!

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You want 8 pies? What?

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