renzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agoEnglish has too many words for animalslemmy.worldimagemessage-square107linkfedilinkarrow-up1423arrow-down144file-text
arrow-up1379arrow-down1imageEnglish has too many words for animalslemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square107linkfedilinkfile-text
Yall should remove some of these animal words and instead add different words for like the 5 different meanings of “spring”
minus-squarememe_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48arrow-down1·18 days agoSimple! Turtle: pretty chill dude cruising the East Australian Current Tortoise: teaching Pandas Kung-Fu
minus-squaregnutrino@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down1·18 days agoDamn kids, in my day turtles lived in the sewer eating pizza and doing ninjutsu. shakes cane
minus-squarememe_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·18 days agoThose clearly were tortoises though :D
minus-squaregnutrino@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·17 days agoTechnically they’re (mutated) terrapins (specifically red-eared terrapins).
minus-squareMeatPilot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·17 days agoTeenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins Heroes in a half-shell, Terrapin Power!
minus-squaremsfroh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·17 days agoBut terrapins are not tortoises, since they’re semiaquatic, but are differentiated from common turtles by their presence in brackish water.
Simple!
Turtle: pretty chill dude cruising the East Australian Current
Tortoise: teaching Pandas Kung-Fu
Damn kids, in my day turtles lived in the sewer eating pizza and doing ninjutsu.
shakes cane
Those clearly were tortoises though :D
Technically they’re (mutated) terrapins (specifically red-eared terrapins).
Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins
Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins
Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins
Heroes in a half-shell, Terrapin Power!
So, tortoises, and thus also turtles…
But terrapins are not tortoises, since they’re semiaquatic, but are differentiated from common turtles by their presence in brackish water.