Post #1403032
2026-04-12 09:56 UTC
All tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises. Generally tortoise implies that it is mostly land based, but it's not a rigorous definition. You can call all of them turtles all day long and still be correct, but that doesn't mean that American English doesn't still have the same connotations for turtle and tortoise that British English does.
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@tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 09:59
I just do in English what I’d do in Japanese: see turtle? If feets, land turtle. If flippers, sea turtle. 🐢
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@can_you_change_your_username@fedia.io 2026-04-12 10:23
Now do terrapin.