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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago (3 children)

>Place is called HIPPOdrome

>Look inside

>Horses

[–] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Tfw "hippo" literally means "horse"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Hippothetically

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

But horse-apotamus makes no sense (unless "apotamus" means "big fat") - I'm not the most cunning of linguists.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago

Hippo = horse

Potamus = river

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Explain seahorses, then, if you're so smart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Literally what it's called in slovenian. Povodni konj

[–] [email protected] 44 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Fucking barbarians not knowing Latin and Greek. Literally means horse racing course

[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Yes, but where are the hippos?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 21 hours ago

In the drome you pleb!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

They are in Man Vs Beast

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, but if they'd had any imagination,they could have flooded it and had hippo races!

Losers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago