Yall should remove some of these animal words and instead add different words for like the 5 different meanings of “spring”
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Simple. One can be thrown into water and it’ll be OK. The other…not so much.
So an ordinary witch test?
Depends. Is the turtle made of wood?
Could not then weigh it against a duck 🤔
No, but part of his stuff is:
🤔 hmmmmm
That’s how I remember it. Cursed Reddit post…
Easy! A turtle is flippy flips and a tortoise is clompy clomps.
Thank you random internet fae of wisdom
German: that toad looking thing has a shield on it
Dutch as well, schildpad literally translates to shielded toad.
French: Was tortured.
Hungarian: that frog looking thing has a trough on it.
Det är samma för sköldpaddor.
But also my Swedish is terrible, so that might be completely wrong.
Tortoises are Turtles, but not all Turtles are Tortoises.
This isn’t an English thing, this is a taxonomy thing. It should be the same in any language, just with different words used.
Both are translated “tortue” in french However to be fair, it could be specified “Tortue marine” and “Tortue terrestre”
But tortoise sounds like a French word
Tor-twas.
And its counterpart that stays only on land: Tor-twasn’t
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A turtle lives in water, a tortoise lives on land. A turtle’s not a tortoise, it’s not hard to understand.
But they are turtles, like every crow is a bird.
And every jackdaw is a crow!
Here’s the thing…
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in dutch theyre called landschildpad and zeeschildpad (landshelltoad and seashelltoad)
Shelltoad is a fantastic name for them
But zeeschildpad doesn’t include things like box turtles that live near bodies of water but not all the time, right? I guess here in Belgium we just use “schildpad” for everything.
It also sounds cooler to translate it to shield-toad lol
idk what a box turtle even is 😭 but here in the netherlands we call all of them “schildpad” too. literally no normal human here will say “look a zeeschildpad” (except for biologists probably)
Wait wait wait. Have we been lied to? Are Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo tortoises?
Tuuuurtle turtle-urtle-urtle, turtle urtle urtle urtle. GAH, IT’S NOT A TORTOISE
Most humans live above ground level, you sound like your live in your mother’s basement. Doesn’t make you a different species, does it?
So you’re just admitting you don’t understand taxonomy
Technically this is nor taxonomy, since we aren’t talking about relatedness. This is just linguistics.
explanation
Land dwelling evolved multiple times in turtles, like in box turtles, which are not in the clade of tortoises, but would fit the common definition of tortoise.
This is your reminder that taxonomically fish and trees do not exist.
Wat
Fish belong to the family of clouds (i.e. floating), trees belong to the same group as rocks (see sudowoodo)
The biggest difference is that turtles live in and around water, while tortises are entirely land based.
Not to be confused with the rare tortups, which spends nearly their entire life in flight.
flippers and feet.
Distant muffled sound of Diogenes frantically strapping scuba flippers onto a Galapagos tortoise
One has a flat head the other has a plus sign head like the difference between crocodiles and alligators or ravens and writing desks
English: owl
German: Eule, Uhu, Kauz
French: Hibou, Chouette
Would be simpler just to call them turtles and landturtles.
How about “dry shelly boys” and “wet shelly boys?”
What about mine turtles?
Hello!
This is like the hare and rabbit thing… (what are the differences?)
One is fluffy, the other is forced to listen to the dark echoes of the void
As far as I know, they are totally diferent species, that coincidentally look alike. The European hares closest relative is the roe deer(?)
But Im not a biologist. Probably someone with real knowledge can say something about it
No real biologist, but no. They are 2 different, but closely related species - certainly closer than deer!
Ah ok, do you have some easy sources on that? Otherwise Im affraid I need to deep dive into the wikipedia. “Hey Kids, Papa wont be mentally around for a while :|”
I recommend a targeted dive into Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leporidae
Roughly halfway down, just above taxonomy, is a graphic of the clade. (True) hares are only in the genus Lepus, the rest may be called hares if they are big but that’s not taxonomy, just language.
There also is this helpful picture I found on the mammal page:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/OrthoMaM_v10b_2019_116genera_circular_tree.svg
Rabbits (well, the European rabbits Oryctolagus) are at the top left in blue, hares would be right beside them, as they are more closely related than the next animal group shown here, Pikas (Ochotona). Rabbit, Hares and Pikas form the group Lagomorphs. Deer are in the green category, left center, and thus distantly related.Thanks! :)
A tortoise is a kind of turtle, just like a toad is a kind of frog.
Just like birds are kind of a dinosaurs
Yes!
If you think “spring” is bad, go check how many different meanings there are for the word “set”.
“off” is one my favourites. The alarm went OFF so we had to turn it OFF. It means the opposite of itself.
“Sanction” is another example. Your actions were not sanctioned by us, so as retaliation we’re introducing sanctions against you.
You can cleave something apart, but the halves might cleave together.
It means the opposite of itself.
Fun fact: there’s a word for words like that, they’re called contronyms.
As we run the run of the route in rehearsal, I run the company’s schedule so the show runs on time, the engine runs and the lights run off backup power while the road runs north along a river that runs high and the dye might run in the rain, and as the contract runs a year and a rumor runs through town, I run for office to keep the operation running smoothly, avoid a run on supplies, keep late cues from running over, prevent us from running out of time or letting costs run up, run through notes and run them by the team, run tests and run the numbers, run lines until they run together, run a tight ship so nothing runs afoul of the rules, run risks we can afford, run hot when we must, and keep the whole run unbroken.
I’ve always liked that “flammable” and “inflammable” mean the same thing.
That’s a recent
failuredevelopment, afaik, like when literally means figuratively
This title sentence works multiple ways. My cat is unable to speak English, because it has far too many words beyond the word meow.
