Sallysouth
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Squid and Octopuses
Tonite on KCET at 8pm there is a travel documentary on these creatures and it features swimming with the beasts and an encounter with a Giant Humbolt
Squid.
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If you go to the KCET website, you can click on the video link about the program. Thanks for the heads-up !
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I was going to post that the plural for octopus is octopi. However, words don't taste so good; I try to not have to eat them, so I first checked it
out on dictionary.com, and surprisingly, I found that octopuses and octopi are both correct.
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Sallysouth
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Packoderm, Funny that you mention the spelling as I had to refer to the article I had read on this program in the middle of my post! I has just hoped
that the article was correct so as not to offend any spell-checkers out there!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Packoderm
I was going to post that the plural for octopus is octopi. However, words don't taste so good; I try to not have to eat them, so I first checked it
out on dictionary.com, and surprisingly, I found that octopuses and octopi are both correct. |
except when you define them ie:
octopi: plural of families within the order Octopoda
octopuses: plural of species within family Octopodidae
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Sallysouth
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Very good Sharks! That is exactly what the show was all about,plural species within the family of Octopodidae!!
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Packoderm
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Ha-ha
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Sallysouth
Packoderm, Funny that you mention the spelling as I had to refer to the article I had read on this program in the middle of my post! I has just hoped
that the article was correct so as not to offend any spell-checkers out there!
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That's okay, you didn't mis-spell Puertecitos or Guerrero Negro!
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| Quote: | | except when you define them ie: |
Since we are splitting grammatical hairs here I thought I would mention that the adverb "i.e." should be italicized as it is Latin for
"id est" = that is.
Just in case you get that question next time you are on Jeopardy. Remember to phrase your answer in the form of a question. [A double negative???]
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OK, what is, "I ain't got no double negatives". Tupid Latin!
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