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Originally Posted by entropy
Whalefish is explainable by the nature of Germanic languages. Walvis is the Dutch word for whale, and I am sure that the suffix -fish in any form was used before they found out that the thing had lungs.
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I imaged that, but what confused me..it was an overworked edition from 1984. By then they should have kinda found out. I mean correcting this mistake would not have changed anything about the story or the message, now it looks kinda..well stupid.