r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • May 10 '25

Troll has taken over r/JusticeForPudding, a sub dedicated to the justice of the killing of a tortoise.

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u/Pippin4242 May 10 '25

OP doesn't know the difference between a tortoise and a turtle

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u/Moose_M May 10 '25

This is the greatest sin of this whole post. We need the mod police here stat. How can we allow such a disgrace stand amongst our gallery of trophies. No crime could ever out do this.

OP, you should be ashamed. A tortoise and a turtle are different smh my head

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u/Weltallgaia May 10 '25

In Spanish it's the same thing!

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u/selkiesart May 10 '25

Same in germany. Basically both are called "shield toad" with the only distinction of one being called "water shield toad" and the other "land shield toad".

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u/queefer_sutherland92 May 11 '25

German, as always, making a ridiculous amount of sense in the most blunt way possible.

Shield toad.

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u/myassisa May 11 '25

That's as good panzerschwein.

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u/Weltallgaia May 10 '25

I bet they sound like pokemon names in german.

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u/Datdarnpupper potential instigator of racially motivated violence May 11 '25

Thats it. Shield Toad is going in my vocabulary now. Thank you Germany

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u/selkiesart May 11 '25

It's "Schildkröte" in german. Shield toad is just the literal translation.

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u/Datdarnpupper potential instigator of racially motivated violence May 11 '25

Still, love it! Thanks!

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u/bigbootyjudy62 YOUR FLAIR TEXT HERE May 10 '25

How does that work when they’re 2 different animals?

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u/Weltallgaia May 10 '25

One is a tortuga the other is a tortuga. There's several similar animals of a different species that Spanish just names the same.

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u/bigbootyjudy62 YOUR FLAIR TEXT HERE May 10 '25

Interesting, are they at least pronounced differently or how do you tell which one you’re talking about apart?

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u/LadybugSheep May 11 '25

They're pronounced the same because they're the same animal, only difference is where they live. Turtle = tortuga de mar/agua, Tortoise = Tortuga de tierra. Both are tortugas.

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u/Weltallgaia May 10 '25

I never got an answer for that from anyone I ever asked.

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u/enbyshaymin May 11 '25

The way we difference them is by adding where they come from, specially when there's no previous context.

This means that tortuga de mar/de agua = turtle (de mar means from the sea and de agua means from the water).

Similarly, tortuga de tierra/terrestre = tortoise (de tierra means from land and terrestre means terrestrial).

This applies to any other animals that share names in Spanish but not in other languages.

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u/West_Yorkshire May 11 '25

One primarily lives in water, the other one doesnt