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Hoggies
(mander.xyz)
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
In dutch they are literally called sea-hedgehog. (zee-egel)
So, while latin and all is nice, there's always the dutch way of "doe maar normaal dan doe je gek genoeg". Which translates into: just behave as regular, that's more than enough excitement.
Dutch isn’t real
Je bent niet echt
same in German, Seeigel
Same in Spanish, but from a different root-word. Erizo del mar, which erizo is just a normal hedgehog
Same in Slovene. Morski jež - sea hedgehog
This is turning into the whole ananas / pineapple thing where English is the outlier again.
Same in danish: Søpindsvin
Sea-stick-swine
Continuing the chain, same in Brazilian Portuguese: "Ouriço-do-mar"
It's actually the same in italian, ricci di mare
"doe normaal.."
In french they're "oursins", apparently from bears, which they thought had very hard fur.
Similarly, seals? Sea dogs.