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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 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

[–] NielsBohron 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] NielsBohron 5 points 5 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 5 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 5 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.

[–] NielsBohron 5 points 5 months ago

Thank you. Linguistics is not my field, obviously

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 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] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Please? Please? Please, please!?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Gelfling essence!

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

It's time to make... my move.

[–] kshade 7 points 5 months ago

I hate your whimper

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 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 5 months ago

Drink her essence!

[–] lledrtx 18 points 5 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] 13 points 5 months ago

CAIMAN! Ffs, its not an island.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Crocodiles are so scrungly compared to alligators.

[–] Anticorp 6 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I heard that Frank Oz operates all crocodilians.

[–] Landless2029 5 points 5 months ago

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

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

A great guide to extant archosaurs!

[–] Zugyuk -5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] venoft 3 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] trxxruraxvr 5 points 5 months ago

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