Do octopi feel remorse for tentacle porn?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

On behalf of hopeless wankers everywhere, I thank you.     

Boru

What about us hopeful wankers??

Keeping hope alive?

Boru

[Fireball]

Yer all wrong. Plural is octobrachs, since those are actually arms. 

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^We have a winner!!

Boru

[brewer]

Yer all wrong. Plural is octobrachs, since those are actually arms. 

So not 8 pieces of candy, got it.

[Ravenshire]

Plural of "octopus" is not "octopi". Where do people get this nonsense from? "Octopus" is a Greek word (ὀκτώπους), not a Latin one (where plural of "-us" nouns is mostly formed with "-i"), and the Greek plural is "octopodes" (ὀκτώποδες). In English, the plural of "octopus" should probably be "octopuses", or maybe "octopodes", but certainly not "octopi".

"Octopus" isn't Greek, it's English bastardized from the Greek "oktopous". The worst that you can say about "octopi" is that it's misconceived, but then so is the whole English language.

So the correct plural of "octopus" is "octopi". Because it's the common usage and, more importantly, it pisses off the pedanticists.

Despite our resident "expert", @FlatAssembler, giving his typically unstudied and ignorant opinion, octopi, octopuses, and octopodes are all generally considered correct or, at least, not incorrect. Interestingly, spell check, oddly, only recognizes one.

FlatAssembler, did you write the code for the spellchecker?!?

[pocaracas]

Interesting how someone mentioned all this earlier...

Does a facehugger count as tentacled?






The more you know

The three plurals for octopus come from the different ways the English language adopts plurals. Octopi is the oldest plural of octopus, coming from the belief that words of Latin origin should have Latin endings. Octopuses was the next plural, giving the word an English ending to match its adoption as an English word. Lastly, octopodes stemmed from the belief that because octopus is originally Greek, it should have a Greek ending.

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[Paleophyte]

Since English has no clear plural for octopus I suggest that we create a new one.

In the spirit of this thread I submit "Octopasties".