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He is called Thaddäus Tentakel in German or Bläckvard Tentakel in Swedish.

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

Tintás Tunyacsáp in Hungarian, but mostly just Tunyacsáp. It translates back to Inked Lame Tentacle

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 23 hours ago

Lula Molusco, Squid Mollusc if translated back to english.

[–] tautalas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Kalmaras in Lithuanian 🇱🇹

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[–] YICHM@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 21 points 1 day ago

Reading the comments be like

[–] M137@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Swedish name translated: Inkward Tentacle.
Squids are called "bläckfisk" in Swedish, literally translating to "inkfish".

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Woah, same. Crazy. What language do you speak?

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am in America. Of course I speak American 🙄

👊🇺🇸🔥

[–] Generica@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

AmeriKKKa! Fuck yeah!! ✝️🏈🦅

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

Lick my butt and such on my balls!

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are there any other Squidwards I should know about???

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[–] cnzlr_punk@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thaddäus Tentakel (german)

[–] Speiser0@feddit.org 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No bully island Germans!

[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

His name is "Octo Tentakel" in Dutch

[–] runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

but squids have 10 tentacles....

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Squidward, despite his name and number of tentacles, is an octopus.

[–] NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

2 tentacles 8 arms

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[–] proti@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Skalmar in Polish. Then there's SpongeBob Kanciastoporty.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My second language, but in Spanish he's Calamardo Tentáculos

SpongeBob is Bob Esponja

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Squiddi (pronounced Squeeddee), Italian

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
[–] Klarinette245@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

That’s cute!!!

[–] kuunari@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Jalmari Kalmari

[–] q181c@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Jagarico@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

イカヤキ then

[–] rebeccapatriciastar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

in my second heritage language, bleke fangarm. in the languages im pretty conversational in that ive learned throughout life, lula molusco or calamardo tentáculos.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 8 points 2 days ago

calamardo tentáculos

This is great. This is his new name in my head.

[–] T4V0@lemmy.pt 6 points 2 days ago

Lula molusco.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] Klarinette245@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

Français ?

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[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Calamardo Tentáculos in latin spanish.

[–] blodruselur@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Sigmar Fálmarans 🇮🇸

[–] droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Oriion@jlai.lu 5 points 2 days ago

Carlo in french

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Das hier ist Olaf /s

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