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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[–] 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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