#octopodes

[slack-wise]

John Singer Sargent, Two Octopi, 1885

#John Singer Sargent #John Sargent #artists #octopus #octopuses #octopodes #cephalopods #animals #fish

[kpceramics]

I had the immense privilege of going to Greece earlier this summer. I took 400 pictures of ancient pottery and came home inspired to put octopodes on everything.

1. My octopodes on some tiny vases and a cup

2. My reference photo of a Mycenean amphora with an octopus in the Minoan Marine Style, 1500s BCE. (National Arcaelogical Museum, Athens)

3. My bird jug with printed reference photo

4. Bird-shaped vessel from Crete, 2700 - 1900 BCE (Heraklion Archaelogical Museum, Heraklion)

#ceramics #pottery #octopus #octopodes #minoan art #mycenaean #greece #ancient greece

[marinememes]

#octopus #cephalopods #cephalopod #polls #marine biology #aquarium #fish #sharks #deep sea #oceanposting #sea creatures #ocean #fishblr #science #sealife #octopuses #octopi #octopodes

[jellycatstuffies]

Peachie, Bobbie and Candie Octopus (retired 2020)

Ko-fi / Instagram

#stuffed animals #stuffies #stuffed animal #jellycat #jellycats #jellycatlondon #jellycatstuffies #jellycatplush #octopus #octopodes #octopuses #cute #plush #pastel #plushies #plushblr #plushcore #plushiecore #plush animals #plush animal #soft toy #soft toys #stuffiecore #plush toy #plush toys #toycore #kidcore #pastel colors #pastelcore #marine biology

[facts-i-just-made-up]

a group of squids is a squad.

What should a group of octopi be called?

An Octopath Traveler Party.

#octopi #octopuses #octopodes #octopath traveler #unreality

[lingthusiasm]

Gretchen: I think the best-known example of do you do the source language versus the target language in terms of plural in English is a certain little creature with eight legs. Lauren: The octopus. Gretchen: The octopus. Lauren: Which I just avoid talking about in the plural at all to save myself a grammatical crisis. Gretchen: I admit that I have also done this. If you were gonna pluralise “octopus” as if it’s English, it would just be “octopuses.” It’s very easy. But there’s a fairly long-standing tradition in English of when a word is borrowed from Latin to make the plural the actual Latin thing. Because, historically, many English speakers did learn Latin, and so you want to show off your education by using the Latin form even though it’s in English. So, if you’re going to pretend that “octopus” is Latin, then you wanna say, “octopi.” However, there is yet a third complication, which is that “octopus,” in fact, is actually Greek – “octo” meaning “eight” and “pus” meaning “feet. So, Greek does not make these plural by adding I to it. In that case, there has recently become popular a yet even more obscure and yet even more pretentious, to be honest, plural. Lauren: Is there where you say, “octopodes”? Gretchen: Well, this is where I used to say, “octopodes.” But I have recently learned that, apparently, it is, for maximum pretentiousness, /aktaˈpodiz/. Lauren: You’ve out-pretentioused my out-pretentiousness.

Excerpt from Lingthusiasm episode ‘Many ways to talk about many things - Plurals, duals and more’

Listen to the episode, read the full transcript, or check out more links about morphology, syntax, and words. 

#Language #linguistics #lingthusiasm #podcasts #quotes #plural #plurals #grammar #words #English #Latin #duals #octopus #octopuses #octopi #octopodes #pronunciation #maximum pretentiouness #morphology #syntax

[fretbored34]

And suddenly the octopus is my spirit animal

#dank memes #fresh memes #funny memes #memes #lol #funny but true #so true #me irl lol #funny but not funny haha #oh no lol #adulting #mental health #octopus #octopodes #octopi #octopuses #fish #fishblr #fish tank #punch #punching #punching bag #aggression #aggressive #my spirit animal #spirit animal #i hate people #people suck #people suuuuck #i don't like you

[spookiedmango]

Her name is Poppy 🐙

#I decided #octopus #octopuses #octopodes #giant pacific octopus #marine animals #sea creatures #octopus art #marine art #cephalopods #chibi animals #chibi artist #procreate drawings #procreate artist #originals

[timemachineyeah]

why ARE octopodes largely solitary creatures though? there seems to be plenty of evidence of octopodes engaging with the humans they see regularly in a way that at least reads as social, so why not with each other? is there some evolutionary pressure against cooperation for them? or just not enough pressure for it?

#idk but when their descendant archeologists find the remains of our society I hope it’s entertaining #timemachine wuz here #posting in the weeds #octopodes

[jimintomystery]

OK, I saw a tweet about a funny-looking octopus, but then it turned out that it was a ROBOT OCTOPUS that they built to study the coconut octopus in Indonesia.

Anyway, this video is mainly about the actual octopus, which is more interesting anyway since it has NINE BRAINS. But you gotta admire a clip that gets thirty seconds in and says "oh by the way, to get a better look we built a ROBOT OCTOPUS, as you do"

#science #mollusks #cephalopods #octopodes #octopus #robots #robot octopus #also sharks if you're still not sold on this #face it true believers this one's got it all #into mystery #Youtube

[kpceramics]

I had a plan and changed my mind so I need some help :)

#pottery #ceramics #poll time #mountains #trees #bee #octopodes #I mean the Minoan style octopodes #tumblr polls #art

[allthetropes]

#octopus #octopusses #octopodes #octopi #poll #fun

[jellycatstuffies]

Odell Octopus, Storm Octopus, Inky Octopus, Odyssey Octopus and Maya Octopus

Ko-fi / Instagram

#stuffed animals #stuffies #stuffed animal #jellycat #jellycats #jellycatlondon #octopus #octopodes #octopuses #ocean life #cute #plush #plushies #plushie #plushblr #plushcore #plushiecore #stuffiecore #plush blog #allplush #plush toy #plush toys #soft toy #soft toys #toycore #kidcore #plush animal #jellycat stuffed animals

[chaoscalamari]

opinion on octopuses or octopi if your that kind of guy

They're pretty neat. I don't eat takoyaki because I fear their retribution.

#chaos calls #oh you mean which is the better plural form #octopodes

[your-fave-is-being-blended]

Several (Very) Small Dumbo Octopi (From Real Life)

Several (Very) Small Dumbo Octopodes from Real Life are being blended!!

You cannot save them.

#(the plural of octopus is octopodes and i will die on this hill) #(also whY WOULD YOU ASK FOR THIS I FEEL SO BAD) #your fave is being blended #you cannot save them #blend requests #octopus #octopi #octopuses #octopodes #dumbo octopus #very small #very smol #smol #smol boys #tiny #tiny baby

[ceruleanwhore]

For the last time, “pus” means “foot” in Greek, so “platypus” (“broad-footed”) and “octopus” (“eight-footed”) are Greek nouns that should have Greek plural suffixes, i.e. “platypodes” and “octopodes”, not freaking “platypi” and “octopi”, which are Latin plural forms 🙄

#greek #latin #greek language #latin language #semantics #octopodes #platypodes #octopus #platypus #linguistics