When did calling them "zoos" become taboo?

[andrewkw]

Saw this on facebook. I guess here people have always called them zoa dating back to when R2R was club-zoa and there probably are some regional differences but I remember a time 10+ years ago when everyone was calling them "zoos". Of course I wasn't really watching youtube videos / podcasts ect so everyone I heard talking would have been local. I still do call them "zoos" for short, but I also say zoanthaids not zooanthids.

A similar example which I used in the facebook post is my own name. Some people call me Andy for short despite the E in Andrew not making a Y sound. To me zoo is short for zoanthid even though they are not pronounced the same.

 

[TheHarold]

 

[NanoDJS]

Call em whatever you want, I say . you say potato.......

 

[DaneGer21]

I do see the point your making with the “sound”.

But, if I personally ran into someone who said zoo and not zoa, I’d be like “wait, what coral?”

 

[andrewkw]

Overthinking is the best kind of thinking.

 

[ZoWhat]

One person's MEME does not make it a general consensus.

 

[bobby.w.hodges]

When were they ever zooanthids?

 

[inletfish]

my thing ith it was that saying zoos isnt that much quicker than zoa.

When were they ever zooanthids?

im not sure what the point of that is? when was a richard ever a dick?

 

[bobby.w.hodges]

my thing ith it was that saying zoos isnt that much quicker than zoa.



im not sure what the point of that is? when was a richard ever a dick?

You mean diick. I would think that auto correct smart phones killed the zoos, it was always incorrect.

 

[Malifry97]

You know what, I’m settling this. Zoanthids will now be know as “ Thids “.

 

[OrionN]

zoo = zooxanthellae
zoa = zoanthids
Short out so my I don't have to type as much, not speaking.

 

[NanoDJS]

I do see the point your making with the “sound”.

But, if I personally ran into someone who said zoo and not zoa, I’d be like “wait, what coral?”

Well you haven't been around too many distributors from abroad then I guess lol, hands down the guy i get the craziest corals from always , you cant understand anything but the .......zoo , I just go with it , hes an awesome guy we have language barrier , but man the pieces I have got from not caring what he calls the things, we share the same love for the same thing that is universal .

 

[DaneGer21]

Well you haven't been around too many distributors from abroad then I guess lol

I highly doubt many people have this experience

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Some people get upset with proper pronunciation.

I say zoa (zoh-ah)
just like I say chaeto (kato)

but when someone says [zoo], or [chayto], I know what they're saying and don't feel the need to point it out.

 

[stacksoner]

"What are you going to do with all the time you saved by calling them "zoos" instead of "zoas"?

 

[LegendaryCG]

I don’t know if it’s taboo, I’ll just assume that English isn’t your first language..

 

[Thub]

If you ask my fiancee, they're xylophones, so I dunno if zooanthinds is that bad.

 

[OrionN]

I don’t know if it’s taboo, I’ll just assume that English isn’t your first language..

English isn’t my first language and I don’t call Zoanthis zoo. I call them Zoa.

 

[resortez]

As long as I’ve been in the hobby, I’ve heard zoas called zoos & no one tripped out, especially from old hobbyists when frag swaps were in parking lots & frags were displayed in coolers under natural sunlight. I’ve even posted packs for sale with the title “Z’s & P’s” aka zoas & palys, every zoa collector understood the title.