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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[–] 39 points 5 months ago (13 children)

A turtle lives in water, a tortoise lives on land. A turtle's not a tortoise, it's not hard to understand.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    But they are turtles, like every crow is a bird.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    in dutch theyre called landschildpad and zeeschildpad (landshelltoad and seashelltoad)

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    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)

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  • [+] [S] -33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    So you're just admitting you don't understand taxonomy

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Technically this is nor taxonomy, since we aren't talking about relatedness. This is just linguistics.

    explanationLand 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.

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