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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Easy! A turtle is flippy flips and a tortoise is clompy clomps.
Thank you random internet fae of wisdom
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
German: that toad looking thing has a shield on it
Hungarian: that frog looking thing has a trough on it.
Dutch as well, schildpad literally translates to shielded toad.
One has a flat head the other has a plus sign head like the difference between crocodiles and alligators or ravens and writing desks
I always thought turtles mostly live in the water and tortoises mostly lived on land.
The good ol’ “All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises”
True, in British English! American English doesn’t differentiate.
Well, it’s fine for the Americans to be wrong again :)
That’s not true at all. American English absolutely differentiates them in exactly the same way.
I don’t seem to ever get corrected, chewed out, or bitched at when I call the animal with shell and legs a turtle, and I talk about turtles a lot. More than you’d ever know.
All tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises. Generally tortoise implies that it is mostly land based, but it’s not a rigorous definition. You can call all of them turtles all day long and still be correct, but that doesn’t mean that American English doesn’t still have the same connotations for turtle and tortoise that British English does.
I just do in English what I’d do in Japanese: see turtle? If feets, land turtle. If flippers, sea turtle.
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In common speech Japanese conflates way more animals than English does, including turtles/tortoises. I just had to look up rikugame because I’d only ever heard kame before. If you’re a scientist or at a turtle conference I’m sure the distinction gets used, but otherwise it goes along the lines of pigeon/dove, alligator/crocodile, rat/mouse, etc.
I grew up speaking Japanese. I know this already.
I’m choosing to believe that rather than explaining my own language back to me, that you’ve made that comment for the sake of audience notes, so people who don’t speak Japanese can follow along from the comfort of their own toilets.
Otherwise it’s kinda cringe.
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.
Simple!
Turtle: pretty chill dude cruising the East Australian Current
Tortoise: teaching Pandas Kung-Fu
A turtle lives in water, a tortoise lives on land. A turtle’s not a tortoise, it’s not hard to understand.
Tuuuurtle turtle-urtle-urtle, turtle urtle urtle urtle. GAH, IT’S NOT A 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)
This is like the hare and rabbit thing… (what are the differences?)
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! :)
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.
It means the opposite of itself.
Fun fact: there’s a word for words like that, they’re called contronyms.
