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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Easy! A turtle is flippy flips and a tortoise is clompy clomps.
Thank you random internet fae of wisdom
All tortoises are turtles (but not all turtles are tortoises) from a biology point of view. Tortoises specifically being exclusively land-based members of the turtle (Testudines) order. So there is a difference.
And “spring” doesn’t really have different meanings - as per the root of the word, it always means some variant of “to burst forth”. There’s lots of different definitions for the word but they’re all rooted in the same place, from an etymology point of view.
The season bursting forth from the winter darkness and cold, the metal coil as it bursts forth when released from compression, the source of water as it bursts forth from the ground, bursting forth someone out of jail, etc.
Homographs are the real problem - when two different words, over time, become spelled the same.
Sow, lead, close, bear. All have multiple etymologies where different words eventually became spelled the same. Those are the worst!
English is a truly crazy mashup of Latin, Greek, French, German, Celtic, Norse and more.
Would be simpler just to call them turtles and landturtles.
How about “dry shelly boys” and “wet shelly boys?”
What about mine turtles?
Hello!
English: owl
German: Eule, Uhu, Kauz
French: Hibou, Chouette
One is an animal and the other a military formation, duh.
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The pedant trap has been set…This is like the hare and rabbit thing… (what are the differences?)
One is fluffy, the other is forced to listen to the dark echoes of the void
This title sentence works multiple ways. My cat is unable to speak English, because it has far too many words beyond the word meow.
My box turtle mostly lives on soil, although he enjoys a paddle and soak in his water. But the main difference from a tortoise is that he’s omnivorous, needing protein like bugs, whereas they are herbivores.
Fun fact, Eastern box turtles are illegal to keep as pets in Ohio if captured in the wild.
Mine was raised from the egg of a non wild turtle by someone else who found themselves unable to care for it and asked me to give it a home.
I’ve always wanted one, but I’m never sure if I have a safe enough large space for one
It’s a long commitment,. They might outlive you, assuming you don’t accidentally kill them.
A tortoise is a kind of turtle, just like a toad is a kind of frog.
Just like birds are kind of a dinosaurs
Yes!
If you don’t know the difference between turtle and tortoise then you are a monkey
Apes evolved from dry-nosed monkeys, so despite the popular wisdom, according to monophyly we are monkeys. Similarly humans are fish. The confusion arises because most people still group species by common characteristics (a grade) rather than common descent (a clade). Also known as Linnean vs phylogenetics.
I was just trying to set up a monkey/ape joke
No I’m a primate it’s totally different
The spring comment is valid.
Turtle mostly sea living
Tortoise land living
Terrapin er not sure, water based and evil?
Terrapins move well on land and water, they have webbed clawed feets, mostly they live on fresh water.
