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		colechristensen on Jan 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The mystery of social behavior in octopuses Let’s not encourage the unnecessary language pedantry.

totalZero on Jan 20, 2022 [–]

Pedantry is no felony when discussing an eight-armed genius.

I personally settle for nothing less than "octopodes," with the accent on the second of its four syllables.

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