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[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (1 children)

According to my Spanish friend, 1st one is a cocodrilo 2nd is a cocodrilo 3rd is also a cocodrilo 4th is a monstruo

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Fun fact about the etymology of "alligator:" When the Spanish first landed in what is now Florida, they found alligators and simply called them "el lagarto," which literally translates to "the lizard." While there were many reptiles in the swamps and bayous, only one was enough of a problem to be called "THE lizard," and after ~~several mistranslations~~ being borrowed into other languages, "el lagarto" morphed into "alligator"

Or at least that's what I read somewhere once.

[–] Canadian_Cabinet 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We still colloquially call them lagartos, regardless if its a crocodile or alligator.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good to know! I took years of Spanish classes and my kids are in a Spanish immersion school in California, but I've only ever heard lagarto for smaller lizards and cocodrilo for anything resembling crocodilians

Thanks for the info

[–] Canadian_Cabinet 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah lagarto literally means lizard, but we use it for pretty much any type of reptilian that looks like a lizard lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All of this is correct, except that it's not a "mistranslation", it's a borrowing. Boundaries between words and morphemes are commonly lost in borrowing, and borrowed sounds commonly undergo adaptation as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Thank you. Linguistics is not my field, obviously

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

In the northern Territory of Australia we have no alligators. We are however famous for pur salt and fresh water crocodiles.

So whe.n Europens arrived and found this few massive rivers full of crocodiles they called them the West, South, and Aast alligator rivers.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Please? Please? Please, please!?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gelfling essence!

[–] No_Eponym 5 points 10 months ago

It's time to make... my move.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I hate your whimper

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Drink her essence!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuuuuck I forgot about this

That movie scared me so much as a child, I loved it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Netflix prequel series is great, but they cancelled it after the first season. Fuckers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I had that on my watch list for a while, but when I heard it was canceled I never watched it.

I was so disappointed when they canceled Mindhunter that I didn't want to subject myself to that again.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Y u leave my boy Gharial out huh?

They are so cute too https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Don-Boyer-10425-Gharial.jpg

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

CAIMAN! Ffs, its not an island.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Crocodiles are so scrungly compared to alligators.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure the first one is a caimen and the second might or might not be a crocodile.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I heard that Frank Oz operates all crocodilians.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Caiman looks the most like a dragon head. Mmm...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

A great guide to extant archosaurs!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Isn't the first one an alligator, and the third a crocodile?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

no?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

No, I also though so at first but a quick google confirms this is right.

If you look up 'freshwater crocodile' you'll see he looks a lot like his mommy.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Actually yes. I think it’s written the wrong way because of the sublemmy?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

No. Alligators have a rounded snout and only upper teeth visible. The third one is the alligator