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But cephalopods aren't fish. They are as fish as dolphins. Or me on the coast during vacation.
Are you wrong? No. But fish isnt even a real taxonomic grouping. And since its my post/series I get to play by my own rules. And my rule is if its cute and/or I want to talk about it, im gonna
Doesn't English have a different word for all animals from the sea? Like Frutti di Mare in Italian. Sea animals or something. Because fish is a classification, and you just can't redefine meaning of words on the fly. And my ocd won't let me sleep tonight until this important issue is resolved
Im not going to change the fun alliteration of the title to something like "primarily aquatic animals," just because theyre not technically fish. I think with the amount of times i said cephalopod its pretty onvious it is, in fact, a cephalopod. Sorry, not sorry
Edit: I also think its completely reasonable to talk about cephalopods when talking about the general idea of fish. I mean, jellfish and shellfish both have fish in their names and neither classification is a fish. Again, if we really wanna be sticklers, fish arent even a thing. But this is tangential, because, again, Im just talking about what I want to
I just checked you posts, and I see until today you always posted about actual fishes on these fish fridays, so this is the first mistake of your life, I can forgive you.