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Turtle Shells
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
"Turtle" can refer to both land and marine testudines
The English language makes this way too complicated. Just call all of them 'shield toads' and you're good.
We probably would if the French hadn't gotten involved.
I like this.
"Shield toad" is what "turtle" in German literally means, if you didn't know.
Ja, die Schildkröte ist sehr lustig!
Actually the marine version would be more accurately called 'shield frogs'
All shield-toads are shield-frogs, but not all shield-frogs are shield-toads.
That depends on your flavour of English. See Wikipedia
Yes, I know. I am talking after seeing Wiktionary
This is why we had the American Revolution!
[that and the whole don't go west and kill the Indians thing.]