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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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.
Tortoises are Turtles, but not all Turtles are Tortoises.
This isn’t an English thing, this is a taxonomy thing. It should be the same in any language, just with different words used.
Both are translated “tortue” in french However to be fair, it could be specified “Tortue marine” and “Tortue terrestre”
But tortoise sounds like a French word
Tor-twas.
And its counterpart that stays only on land: Tor-twasn’t
Simple!
Turtle: pretty chill dude cruising the East Australian Current
Tortoise: teaching Pandas Kung-Fu
Damn kids, in my day turtles lived in the sewer eating pizza and doing ninjutsu.
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Those clearly were tortoises though :D
Technically they’re (mutated) terrapins (specifically red-eared terrapins).
Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins
Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins
Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins
Heroes in a half-shell, Terrapin Power!So, tortoises, and thus also turtles…
But terrapins are not tortoises, since they’re semiaquatic, but are differentiated from common turtles by their presence in brackish water.
Fuck paraphyletic groups. All my homies hate paraphyletic groups.
Would be simpler just to call them turtles and landturtles.
How about “dry shelly boys” and “wet shelly boys?”
What about mine turtles?
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!
Spelled differently, duh.
One is an animal and the other a military formation, duh.
One has a flat head the other has a plus sign head like the difference between crocodiles and alligators or ravens and writing desks
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True, in British English! American English doesn’t differentiate.
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That’s not true at all. American English absolutely differentiates them in exactly the same way.
I don’t seem to ever get corrected, chewed out, or bitched at when I call the animal with shell and legs a turtle, and I talk about turtles a lot. More than you’d ever know.
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.
Now do terrapin.
A terrapin is a student of the university of maryland. ezpz
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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In common speech Japanese conflates way more animals than English does, including turtles/tortoises. I just had to look up rikugame because I’d only ever heard kame before. If you’re a scientist or at a turtle conference I’m sure the distinction gets used, but otherwise it goes along the lines of pigeon/dove, alligator/crocodile, rat/mouse, etc.
I grew up speaking Japanese. I know this already.
I’m choosing to believe that rather than explaining my own language back to me, that you’ve made that comment for the sake of audience notes, so people who don’t speak Japanese can follow along from the comfort of their own toilets.
Otherwise it’s kinda cringe.
The good ol’ “All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises”
plust tortoises are mostly herbivirous while, turtles are omnivirous, and will eat anything that moves.
Like with squares and rectangles
not as much as for plants, the non-scientific names.
English: owl
German: Eule, Uhu, Kauz
French: Hibou, Chouette
Tortoises are land animals. Simple.
Frogs and toads might be a better one - there’s no systematic difference except toads are ugly.
Easy! A turtle is flippy flips and a tortoise is clompy clomps.
Thank you random internet fae of wisdom
They are waaaaaay different what are you talking about…
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