Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law

Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by twhb on Sunday November 21, 2021 @11:25PM (#29302716)

Personally I don’t believe in “plural”. If there’s more than one of something I just say it: “I went to the aquarium and saw octopus octopus octopus. I’d tell you what I saw around the anthill outside, but I’m not sure you have the time.” :)

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by grose on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:33AM (#29303122)

I know this is a joke, but this is an actual thing in linguistics called reduplication. For example, hito (人) in Japanese means person, and hitobito (人人) means people, more or less. Japanese isn't the best example since they don't have "real" plurals but I think it's a fascinating phenomenon.

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by efitz on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:09AM (#29304379)

Same in Thai. “Child” is “dek”, children is “dek dek”.

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