SPOOPY TARDIGRADE

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• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Okay, but who is the seamstress, because that costume is awesome and they don’t make themselves.

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  • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t underestimate biologist dads.

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• MacStache@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fun fact, those are called “karhukainen” in Finnish. A direct (but loose) translation would be “bearly”, “bearlike” or something else bear related.

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  • tiramichu@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In English too, the colloquial name for tardigrades is “water bears” :D

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    • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not a f*ing Walter bear!

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  • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    German is “Bärtierchen”. Which is a cute version of bear animal.

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Very loose. The finnish equivalent for those words would be “karhumainen”. I’m not sure there is a single-word translation for the “-kainen” suffix.

    It doesn’t really work the same way “-mainen” does, it’s similar, but results in a word that has a more definite meaning.

    “Lapsimainen” would mean childlike or childish, while “lapsukainen” only ever refers to an actual child (or if used to describe an adult, would be like calling them a “literal child” in a belittling way).

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    • MacStache@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Finnish suffix “-kainen” is used to create nouns that refer to things or beings associated with a particular quality or characteristic. Even though we don’t necessarily mentally associate it with a similar meaning as “-mainen”, it still is. Hence the translation of “bearlike” is close enough.

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• sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A costume that will last for years - even in the vacuum of space.

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh right, now we’re claiming tardigrades are “biology”

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  • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …they are? They are literally living organisms with brains, legs, mouth etc… How does a tardigrade not fall into biology?

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    • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I suspect they may be making a joke that tardigrades are aliens.

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tbf they are fascinating but also scary in a way

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