so then we are free to allow any convention to take hold. so why not use the multiple different potential pluralities to differentiate between same species, di

so then we are free to allow any convention to take hold. so why not use the multiple different potential pluralities to differentiate between same species, different species, and unknown species? I think the following would be the most intuitive! Octopuses seems most intuitive and already assumes unknown species (ie used by children who dont even know what a species is) Octopi sounds similar to a singular entity (no trailing s), so a group from a single species Octopodes then could explicitly refer to multiple species together, as it changes the spelling a bit and also adds an s Of course, conventions are not decided upon by a single persons thought process in a random internet forum - so I'm not sure why I wrote this out