HOME | DD
HareTrinity โ Turtle OR Tortoise
Published: 2011-11-26 19:21:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 38071; Favourites: 503; Downloads: 725
Redirect to original
Description
I'm glad the episode brought this up, that people can't tell the difference is... Well, I guess I should see it coming but I rarely do.And then someone on a MLP site's comments said that terrapins are ALL freshwater turtles, including (their own example) SNAPPING TURTLES.
Trust me, those crocodile wannabes are NOT included in the term!EDIT: Did some more research and apparently some tortoises HAVE been observed floating so that they can doggy paddle a little. The general agreement, however, is that most tortoises will sink like a rock. Those crazy testudines!
2022 EDIT: The comic got a dub by Agent0Fluffy !
ย
Related content
Comments: 205
It's okay so long as she doesn't notice?
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
Dash checked to see if he could swim?
I guess she wanted a *sunglasses* Fish Tank.
Yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaah!
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
Oh dear... That pun's pretty bad! I like it.
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
I'm sure Fluttershy'll stick close until Dash learns the difference!
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
Thank you Hare for making me wet my shirt by snorting coke on it... xD
๐: 0 โฉ: 3
Oh please its all in your head... well my head actualy...
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
Was a joke. A horrible one, but a joke
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
Not the best place to snort coke.
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
Yea, should stop drinking ANYTHING when watching comics, thats how I lost my last keyboard.
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
Awesome, very tricky terminology. Most other cultures have one word to cover turtles, tortoises, and terrapins. In America and Australia it is now accepted to refer to tortoises as turtles.
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
Now that's just awkward!
๐: 0 โฉ: 2
Indeed. In Poland we call them earth turtles and sea turtles. There is a separate word for terrapins (pol. terapena), but I know that just because I googled it a minute ago, otherwise, I would just call it turtle.
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
Maybe she'll just call him a rock in the translation.
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
[Warning: rant ahead] Well, believe it or not, but 'cockatrice' wasn't translated in Polish dub, it was called "cockatrice monster" (pol. potwรณr cockatrice), if I remeber. I know that there is a difference between basilisk and cockatrice, but calling it basilisk (pol. bazyliszek, both the mythical and real world creature) wouldn't harm, would it? I guess they are consistent when it comes to keeping English names, like "Twilight Sparkle", not translated but... come on, everyone has read Harry Potter, right? And even if not, there is a Polish legend about basilisk, at least I remember it, so this creature is not that unknown...
God, this comment was long, but I guess I really care for dub quality and translation.
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
That IS odd! I'd have thought they'd just stick with cockatrice (if people thought it was made up for the show then nothing lost) or indeed basilisk as the 2 are pretty much interchangeable terms...!
I'm sure a lot of English-speaking people didn't know the word "cockatrice" anyway.
...And yet it was apparently worries that kids wouldn't know what a "duke" is that lead them to calling Rarity's crush (fan name = Prince Blueblood) Celestia's "nephew" which raises all sorts of questions!
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
Yeah...
Here's what Wiki says "American English tends to use the word turtle as a general term for all species. "Tortoise" is used for most land-dwelling turtle species, including the family Testudinidae and box tortoises. Oceanic species are usually referred to as sea turtles."
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
I just realized that this joke so isn't going to work in the German dub of FiM ^^
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
I'm curious to how they work with that...!
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
Call upon the Sea Turtles. Shooby-doo shoop dooby-doo!
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
It's an old song in the first generation my little pony. XD
It was called "Calling All the Sea ponies". It has lyrics like Shooby doop. Shoo Shoo be DOOP! It's fun to sing it.
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
[Googles] AHHH! That's hilarious!
I think I've seen clips but they were to different music...? So cheers for pointing me towards the original!
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
No prob! I love to help out.
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
...That's so perfect!
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
Thank you. I didn't got it either -because in Spanish, my native tongue turtles and tortoises are called the same- and was to lazy to investigate.
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
A lot of people are wondering how it'll translate... Hopefully they'll find a similar joke?
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
Hopefully, they'll figure it out in time. We just had 1st season last week so there's plenty of time.
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
Well ponies taught me something today. Too bad my college cant say the same thing.
๐: 0 โฉ: 2
Ponies > College ?
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
Disregard college; acquire ponies
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
Wow very informative and funny
๐: 0 โฉ: 1
Actually Smudovier, when the US built a museum dedicated to the Natives, It was changed from "Indian" to "Native American" at the request of some white woman who brought it up.
It was then changed back to "Indian" at the request of an actual Native American. So by the admission of subjects, both terms are acceptable.
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
I was pretty impressed by this, although i still feel this doesn't make up for the fact that they refer to Bison in the series as Buffalo. It's like refering to Native Americans as Indians...
๐: 0 โฉ: 2
Maybe they'll come back to it later? Was meant to be early times in Pony-Bison relations.
๐: 0 โฉ: 0
<= Prev | | Next =>