Newsflash, all Octopuses decended from a pokemon

[Pushkin]

Many of the world’s deep-sea octopuses evolved from a common ancestor that still exists in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, a study has shown.

Researchers suggest that the creatures evolved after being driven to other ocean basins 30 million years ago by nutrient-rich and salty currents.

Really cute little fellow too, see

[Zsofia]

Oh my god, what an adorable little fetusy-looking octopus!

[Johnny_L.A]

It’s CUTE! The top photo looks like it has a little face. It almost makes me feel bad about eating octopi.

Almost.

[Snowboarder_Bo]

GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY!

That does look like a pokemon!

[Nanoda]

Awww… who’s a shallow-water species endemic to the Southern Ocean? You are, yes you are!

[Mangetout]

Aha. The evidence that all octopuses evolved from one species that still exists, disproves evolution!

-Or that’s what someone will probably already be arguing, somewhere.

[The_Punkyova]

One octopus, two octopods, or two octopodes. It’s Greek, not Latin.
Slinks off to be pedantic elsewhere.

[Johnny_L.A]

@The_Punkyova

One octopus, two octopods, or two octopodes. It’s Greek, not Latin.
Slinks off to be pedantic elsewhere.

Octopus

There are three forms of the plural of octopus; namely, octopuses, octopi, and octopodes. Currently, octopuses is the most common form in the UK as well as the US; octopodes is rare, and octopi is often objected to.[24]

The Oxford English Dictionary (2004 update[25]) lists octopuses, octopi and octopodes (in that order); it labels octopodes “rare”, and notes that octopi derives from the mistaken assumption that octōpūs is a second declension Latin noun, which it is not. Rather, it is (Latinized) Greek, from oktṓpous (ὀκτώπους), gender masculine, whose plural is oktṓpodes (ὀκτώποδες). If the word were native to Latin, it would be octōpēs (‘eight-foot’) and the plural octōpedes, analogous to centipedes and mīllipedes, as the plural form of pēs (‘foot’) is pedes. In modern, informal Greek, it is called khtapódi (χταπόδι), gender neuter, with plural form khtapódia (χταπόδια).

Chambers 21st Century Dictionary[26] and the Compact Oxford Dictionary[27] list only octopuses, although the latter notes that octopodes is “still occasionally used”; the British National Corpus has 29 instances of octopuses, 11 of octopi and 4 of octopodes. Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary lists octopuses and octopi, in that order; Webster’s New World College Dictionary lists octopuses, octopi and octopodes (in that order).

Fowler’s Modern English Usage states that “the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses,” and that octopi is misconceived and octopodes pedantic.

[Amp]

Megaleledone setebos, I choose you!

Hmmm… it does have a nice ring to it.

[What_Exit]

@The_Punkyova

One octopus, two octopods, or two octopodes. It’s Greek, not Latin.
Slinks off to be pedantic elsewhere.

You are wrong, it is English and we hammered this out in detail in a prior thread.
Proper Greek pluralization, should it trump over 100 years of common English usage?

[garygnu]

So where does Cthulhu fit into the family tree?

[CalMeacham]

:
Originally Posted by The Punkyova
One octopus, two octopods, or two octopodes. It’s Greek, not Latin.
Slinks off to be pedantic elsewhere.

You are wrong, it is English and we hammered this out in detail in a prior thread.
Proper Greek pluralization, should it trump over 100 years of common English usage?

The Punkova is quite right, as I pointed out long ago, before that thread. as the OED says, you can use octopodes or octopuses. But octopi (as Johnny L.a. has it )has no justification, and is as wrong as stewardi.

Sorry, Johnny. No offense.

[Johnny_L.A]

@CalMeacham

OED says, you can use octopodes or octopuses. *.

Sorry, Johnny. No offense.

It may have been more common when I was growing up. Things I learned early tended to stick.

The quoted part of the Wiki article says the OED does list ‘octopi’.

[What_Exit]

@CalMeacham

The Punkova is quite right, as I pointed out long ago, before that thread. as the OED says, you can use octopodes or octopuses. But octopi (as Johnny L.a. has it )has no justification, and is as wrong as stewardi.

Sorry, Johnny. No offense.

You are incorrect, *octopi *is acceptable though it came from false logic. Beside **The Punkyova **is also not accepting octopuses which is the prefered usage.

[CalMeacham]

You are incorrect, octopi is acceptable though it came from false logic.

Not according to the OED. YMMV.

[TroubleAgain]

Holy crap, can we hijack a thread any faster with our grammatic pedantry?

That octopus-thingy is absofreakinlutely adorable!

[What_Exit]

@CalMeacham

Not according to the OED. YMMV.

Please, read through the thread I linked. I covers most aspects of the debate pretty thoroughly. Johnny L.A. used an acceptable but not the prefered. You also wrote that **The Punkyova **was correct when the OED itself supports octopuses showing he was wrong by almost any standard.
Pedants should really verify they are actually correct before posting. We need a new message board corollary to Gaudere’s law that states “Pedants posting corrections and objections are wrong more often than not.”

[Maus_Magill]

@TroubleAgain

Holy crap, can we hijack a thread any faster with our grammatic pedantry?

That octopus-thingy is absofreakinlutely adorable!

Okay - How about another form of pedantry all together? The article states Megaleledone setebos is the ancestor of all deep water octopodes (or whatever), not all octopuses (or whatever).

[Cervaise]

@TroubleAgain

Holy crap, can we hijack a thread any faster with our grammatic pedantry?

Grammatical.

[TroubleAgain]

@Maus_Magill

Okay - How about another form of pedantry all together? The article states Megaleledone setebos is the ancestor of all deep water octopodes (or whatever), not all octopuses (or whatever).

Now, see, arguing the facts of the article is not a hijack. And I had noticed that too. But mostly, I still think they’re cute, regardless.

@Cervaise

Grammatical.

But that is a nitpick and a hijack all rolled into one post.