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someone definitely let their kid name a fish
"their kid" being literally Linnaeus, as it turns out
i would hardly call someone from sweden an adult
now imagining the alternate reality in which Linnaeus used his native Swedish instead of Latin, and all of the animals' scientific names sound like Ikea furniture
Going to the zoo would be like listening to the Swedish muppet
Translate says that this fish would then be "Petar petar", which I guess could be an end table or something.
I'd translate it to something more like "klappa klappa", and it would be a folding table
Perfect. I was working with only the tiny hex wrench provided by Google Translate, so I appreciate this a lot.
And it would be Lindian taxonomy instead of Linnaean.
Crane already has a proper Swedish Latin name (Grus grus) simply translates as 'gravel gravel'...
This is sadly true *looking at current state of political debate in Sweden*
