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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 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] 39 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 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

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

Thank you. Linguistics is not my field, obviously

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 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] 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Please? Please? Please, please!?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I hate your whimper

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

Way back in the day in middle America my parents got my Lil brother a pet baby cayman.

Well....it kept getting bigger. Then bigger. Then we got a book and figured out she was sold a bootleg alligator instead. Poor choices caused it to get released at a local pond. Childhood had a lot of bad choices in my family.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Drink her essence!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 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 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 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 4 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] 14 points 4 months ago

CAIMAN! Ffs, its not an island.

[–] Timecircleline 8 points 4 months ago

Crocodiles are so scrungly compared to alligators.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I heard that Frank Oz operates all crocodilians.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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

[–] ArbitraryValue 4 points 4 months ago

A great guide to extant archosaurs!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 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.

[–] BudgetBandit -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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