• @gens
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    237 months ago

    If i came across a bear, i’d sure remember it.

    • @[email protected]
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      7 months ago

      In fact, the word “brown” is the morph of the original word for bear. Whatever humans used for brown was overshadowed long ago by the very experience of bear itself, and the color alone became a prevalent warning against that thing that is the single most terrifying brown in existence.

      • @[email protected]
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        7 months ago

        Well, maybe. There’s also a competing hypothesis that says it’s the other way around, i.e. “bear” is derived from “brown”; the old word for “bear” became taboo, possibly for fear that speaking the beast’s name would summon it. Either way, the fear of bears has certainly left a mark on the Germanic languages.

      • v_krishna
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        47 months ago

        Orange too. What did those horrible citrus fruits do to our ancestors???

    • @[email protected]
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      77 months ago

      do you know what I think of every time someone uses the phrase “I came across…?”

      shooting one’s jizz across something.

      There. i said it.

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          If you could see the reality of what you just said, she was a hemiplegic in a wheelchair, she had bed sores, she is now cremated and sprinkled over her parents in a graveyard.