Arggghhh - No, no, Ryk Spoor!
I'm currently reading Ryk Spoor and Eric Flint's excellent SF novel "Boundary", from Baen. I was really enjoying it up to the point at which he has a paleontologist talk about "squids and octopi".
"Optopi"?????
Pseudo-intellectualism at its worst, making up fake Latin plurals for words which are not Latin. For goodness sake, if you don't know that the correct (Greek) plural is "octopodes", then just say "octopuses". Saying "octopi" just makes you look stupid.
I'm very disappointed that a "howler" like this would get through Baen's proof-reading process.
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