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Nov. 15th, 2011 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Sam: The National Hellenic Museum has a new exhibit with a twelve-foot-tall Trojan Horse that kids can climb around in.
Boss: No! Don't do it!
Sam: That's awesome!
Boss: People died in the Trojan Horse!
Coworker: Wait, I thought they used it to invade?
Sam: I'm pretty sure at least one dude died. Didn't Laocoon or one of the other Trojans stab the horse and some guy died silently, thus proving how awesomely stoic he was? Or Odysseus strangled him, I can't remember.
Coworker: Why would he do that?
Boss: Either way, what a great addition to any playground.
Boss: No! Don't do it!
Sam: That's awesome!
Boss: People died in the Trojan Horse!
Coworker: Wait, I thought they used it to invade?
Sam: I'm pretty sure at least one dude died. Didn't Laocoon or one of the other Trojans stab the horse and some guy died silently, thus proving how awesomely stoic he was? Or Odysseus strangled him, I can't remember.
Coworker: Why would he do that?
Boss: Either way, what a great addition to any playground.
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Date: 2011-11-16 12:50 am (UTC)But to this day I still instantly picture that particular Trojan horse whenever the matter arises - such as this very post.
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Date: 2011-11-16 02:13 am (UTC)This seems to be the place for you, Sam. Continue on in your awesome job.
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Date: 2011-11-16 12:25 pm (UTC)However, as the singular 'octopus' is implicitly plural (One 'eight-leg', rather than 'eight legs')one could concievably make an argument for a zero-morph plural: 1 octopus, 2 octopus, a marauding horde of octopus. [This argument works best with drunk linguists. Not supported by any literature.]
As an English noun, of course, one must accept the anglicized "Octopuses" regardless of how aesthetically and etymologically displeasing it may be. [This argument works best with English majors; alcohol and the OED may be factors.]
Everybody can agree (English sticklers and classical etymology sticklers and probably also biologists) that "octopi" is RIGHT. OUT. [Rampant elitism is a deciding factor. Booze and dictionaries are just boni. Drunk mathemticians love it - but just because they like pi.]
Frat boys prefer "octopussy". [This is not an argument but a bad misogynist joke fueled by testosterone and booze. Not to be used in class, for it has none.]
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Date: 2011-11-16 10:56 pm (UTC)I'm not sure what else to say except 'I agree'? :D (Well, and that I'm an English and Classics major, which leaves me in terrible coniptions over this argument.)