The common name comes from a woman who cut off her abusive husband's penis. It's scientific name is Eunice (a female name meaning victory or conquest) aphrodoitis (the Greek goddess of love).
Basically, the scientist who named this thing wants to make sure you have a VERY SPECIFIC nightmare about it.
The common name comes from a woman who cut off her abusive husband's penis. It's scientific name is Eunice (a female name meaning victory or conquest) aphrodoitis (the Greek goddess of love).
Basically, the scientist who named this thing wants to make sure you have a VERY SPECIFIC nightmare about it.
Seems overkill, because if I ever saw the thing, I'd likely have all the nightmares about it, not just that one very specific one.
The common name comes from a woman who cut off her abusive husband's penis. It's scientific name is Eunice (a female name meaning victory or conquest) aphrodoitis (the Greek goddess of love).
Basically, the scientist who named this thing wants to make sure you have a VERY SPECIFIC nightmare about it.
Seems overkill, because if I ever saw the thing, I'd likely have all the nightmares about it, not just that one very specific one.
Biologists don't do subtle very well. The grizzly bear's common name translates as "bear horrible bear," and the Eurasian brown bear's is, "bear bear bear."
"Victorious love worm," is about as obscure as it gets.
The common name comes from a woman who cut off her abusive husband's penis. It's scientific name is Eunice (a female name meaning victory or conquest) aphrodoitis (the Greek goddess of love).
Basically, the scientist who named this thing wants to make sure you have a VERY SPECIFIC nightmare about it.
The common name comes from a woman who cut off her abusive husband's penis. It's scientific name is Eunice (a female name meaning victory or conquest) aphrodoitis (the Greek goddess of love).
Basically, the scientist who named this thing wants to make sure you have a VERY SPECIFIC nightmare about it.
Seems overkill, because if I ever saw the thing, I'd likely have all the nightmares about it, not just that one very specific one.
Biologists don't do subtle very well. The grizzly bear's common name translates as "bear horrible bear," and the Eurasian brown bear's is, "bear bear bear."
"Victorious love worm," is about as obscure as it gets.
To be fair "Bear" is thought to come from a word for "brown" because the original name of bears was thought to summon them and everybody thought they were scary as fuck so just referred to them as "brown one".
I guess this theory has become doubtful recently but I don't care, I find it amusing that they're brown brown browns.
The common name comes from a woman who cut off her abusive husband's penis. It's scientific name is Eunice (a female name meaning victory or conquest) aphrodoitis (the Greek goddess of love).
Basically, the scientist who named this thing wants to make sure you have a VERY SPECIFIC nightmare about it.
Seems overkill, because if I ever saw the thing, I'd likely have all the nightmares about it, not just that one very specific one.
Biologists don't do subtle very well. The grizzly bear's common name translates as "bear horrible bear," and the Eurasian brown bear's is, "bear bear bear."
"Victorious love worm," is about as obscure as it gets.
To be fair "Bear" is thought to come from a word for "brown" because the original name of bears was thought to summon them and everybody thought they were scary as fuck so just referred to them as "brown one".
I guess this theory has become doubtful recently but I don't care, I find it amusing that they're brown brown browns.
No. It has pretty firm etymological support given how far back in history the split happened. At some point during protogermanic the original work for bear became a taboo word and replaced by Bero, "the brown one". Before that bears were called "rkto", which we can see in ancient greek where bears are called arktos.
"rkto" is in itself probably a taboo name since it has its roots in a proto-indoeuropean word meaning "the destroyer".
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
The common name comes from a woman who cut off her abusive husband's penis. It's scientific name is Eunice (a female name meaning victory or conquest) aphrodoitis (the Greek goddess of love).
Basically, the scientist who named this thing wants to make sure you have a VERY SPECIFIC nightmare about it.
Seems overkill, because if I ever saw the thing, I'd likely have all the nightmares about it, not just that one very specific one.
Biologists don't do subtle very well. The grizzly bear's common name translates as "bear horrible bear," and the Eurasian brown bear's is, "bear bear bear."
"Victorious love worm," is about as obscure as it gets.
To be fair "Bear" is thought to come from a word for "brown" because the original name of bears was thought to summon them and everybody thought they were scary as fuck so just referred to them as "brown one".
I guess this theory has become doubtful recently but I don't care, I find it amusing that they're brown brown browns.
No. It has pretty firm etymological support given how far back in history the split happened. At some point during protogermanic the original work for bear became a taboo word and replaced by Bero, "the brown one". Before that bears were called "rkto", which we can see in ancient greek where bears are called arktos.
"rkto" is in itself probably a taboo name since it has its roots in a proto-indoeuropean word meaning "the destroyer".
When I googled to confirm my memory on this wikitionary mentioned this:
However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *bʰer- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggests that a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer- (“wild animal”) "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *ǵʰw and *gʷʰ (*gʷʰ may sometimes result in Germanic *b, perhaps e.g. in *bidjaną, but it also seems to have given the g in gun and the w in warm).
Which is frankly over my head and I don't super care. It's still plausible to say they're brown brown browns and I'm gonna stick with that.
Another fun taxonomic example I've been a fan of for since learning it in Gabriel Knight 2 is the Eurasian Grey Wolf which is canis lupus lupus.
Whose a good dog wolf wolf, huh?!
The Western lowland gorilla is gorilla gorilla gorilla
Also, the boa constrictor is the only animal whose common name is identical to its taxonomic name
[Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited August 2019
There's also hippopotamus. And... gorilla.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited August 2019
Although saying "its common name" like there's only one is meaningless anyway. Its common name where and with whom. That's the whole reason for specific names.
No. It has pretty firm etymological support given how far back in history the split happened. At some point during protogermanic the original work for bear became a taboo word and replaced by Bero, "the brown one". Before that bears were called "rkto", which we can see in ancient greek where bears are called arktos.
"rkto" is in itself probably a taboo name since it has its roots in a proto-indoeuropean word meaning "the destroyer".
This is called a "noa word"! Basically "safe" names to use.
In older Swedish we have Hin Håle, a noa word for Satan, that means "the hard one". "Hin" itself means "the other" or "that one", and we have the word "hinsides", meaning "the other side", as in "that's on the other side of...", which originally meant "yep, in the spirit realm".
The common name comes from a woman who cut off her abusive husband's penis. It's scientific name is Eunice (a female name meaning victory or conquest) aphrodoitis (the Greek goddess of love).
Basically, the scientist who named this thing wants to make sure you have a VERY SPECIFIC nightmare about it.
Seems overkill, because if I ever saw the thing, I'd likely have all the nightmares about it, not just that one very specific one.
Biologists don't do subtle very well. The grizzly bear's common name translates as "bear horrible bear," and the Eurasian brown bear's is, "bear bear bear."
"Victorious love worm," is about as obscure as it gets.
To be fair "Bear" is thought to come from a word for "brown" because the original name of bears was thought to summon them and everybody thought they were scary as fuck so just referred to them as "brown one".
I guess this theory has become doubtful recently but I don't care, I find it amusing that they're brown brown browns.
No. It has pretty firm etymological support given how far back in history the split happened. At some point during protogermanic the original work for bear became a taboo word and replaced by Bero, "the brown one". Before that bears were called "rkto", which we can see in ancient greek where bears are called arktos.
"rkto" is in itself probably a taboo name since it has its roots in a proto-indoeuropean word meaning "the destroyer".
When I googled to confirm my memory on this wikitionary mentioned this:
However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *bʰer- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggests that a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer- (“wild animal”) "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *ǵʰw and *gʷʰ (*gʷʰ may sometimes result in Germanic *b, perhaps e.g. in *bidjaną, but it also seems to have given the g in gun and the w in warm).
Which is frankly over my head and I don't super care. It's still plausible to say they're brown brown browns and I'm gonna stick with that.
The subspecies name is Ursus arctos arctos. Arctos is related to the pre-brown word for bear, and ursus is probably unrelated to either, being "bear" from a whole other language group.
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JacobyOHHHHH IT’S A SNAKECreature - SnakeRegistered Userregular
“It’s a gorilla. But not any gorilla. It’s like, a gorilla gorilla.”
The common name comes from a woman who cut off her abusive husband's penis. It's scientific name is Eunice (a female name meaning victory or conquest) aphrodoitis (the Greek goddess of love).
Basically, the scientist who named this thing wants to make sure you have a VERY SPECIFIC nightmare about it.
Seems overkill, because if I ever saw the thing, I'd likely have all the nightmares about it, not just that one very specific one.
Biologists don't do subtle very well. The grizzly bear's common name translates as "bear horrible bear," and the Eurasian brown bear's is, "bear bear bear."
"Victorious love worm," is about as obscure as it gets.
To be fair "Bear" is thought to come from a word for "brown" because the original name of bears was thought to summon them and everybody thought they were scary as fuck so just referred to them as "brown one".
I guess this theory has become doubtful recently but I don't care, I find it amusing that they're brown brown browns.
No. It has pretty firm etymological support given how far back in history the split happened. At some point during protogermanic the original work for bear became a taboo word and replaced by Bero, "the brown one". Before that bears were called "rkto", which we can see in ancient greek where bears are called arktos.
"rkto" is in itself probably a taboo name since it has its roots in a proto-indoeuropean word meaning "the destroyer".
When I googled to confirm my memory on this wikitionary mentioned this:
However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *bʰer- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggests that a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer- (“wild animal”) "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *ǵʰw and *gʷʰ (*gʷʰ may sometimes result in Germanic *b, perhaps e.g. in *bidjaną, but it also seems to have given the g in gun and the w in warm).
Which is frankly over my head and I don't super care. It's still plausible to say they're brown brown browns and I'm gonna stick with that.
The subspecies name is Ursus arctos arctos. Arctos is related to the pre-brown word for bear, and ursus is probably unrelated to either.
Ursus comes from rktos/arktos. The roman pronounciation is much closer to the proto-italic "orssos", which is in itself rktos where the "kt" has softened into a s-like sound.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
The common name comes from a woman who cut off her abusive husband's penis. It's scientific name is Eunice (a female name meaning victory or conquest) aphrodoitis (the Greek goddess of love).
Basically, the scientist who named this thing wants to make sure you have a VERY SPECIFIC nightmare about it.
Seems overkill, because if I ever saw the thing, I'd likely have all the nightmares about it, not just that one very specific one.
Biologists don't do subtle very well. The grizzly bear's common name translates as "bear horrible bear," and the Eurasian brown bear's is, "bear bear bear."
"Victorious love worm," is about as obscure as it gets.
To be fair "Bear" is thought to come from a word for "brown" because the original name of bears was thought to summon them and everybody thought they were scary as fuck so just referred to them as "brown one".
I guess this theory has become doubtful recently but I don't care, I find it amusing that they're brown brown browns.
No. It has pretty firm etymological support given how far back in history the split happened. At some point during protogermanic the original work for bear became a taboo word and replaced by Bero, "the brown one". Before that bears were called "rkto", which we can see in ancient greek where bears are called arktos.
"rkto" is in itself probably a taboo name since it has its roots in a proto-indoeuropean word meaning "the destroyer".
When I googled to confirm my memory on this wikitionary mentioned this:
However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *bʰer- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggests that a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer- (“wild animal”) "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *ǵʰw and *gʷʰ (*gʷʰ may sometimes result in Germanic *b, perhaps e.g. in *bidjaną, but it also seems to have given the g in gun and the w in warm).
Which is frankly over my head and I don't super care. It's still plausible to say they're brown brown browns and I'm gonna stick with that.
The subspecies name is Ursus arctos arctos. Arctos is related to the pre-brown word for bear, and ursus is probably unrelated to either.
Ursus comes from rktos/arktos. The roman pronounciation is much closer to the proto-italic "orssos", which is in itself rktos where the "kt" has softened into a s-like sound.
Today I learned this.
Also, today I learned that "arctos" was before "arctic." They literally named it, "the place with bears."
Bear related etymology is much farther reaching than I ever would have thought. It's like getting so lost in Wikipedia that you got from spark plugs to toothcarp except its all bears.
Posts
https://youtu.be/rSvPqkZgw8E
I'm an old because my first thought was "the a/c bill for that must be fucking obnoxious".
That's some straight up horror show footage.
The common name comes from a woman who cut off her abusive husband's penis. It's scientific name is Eunice (a female name meaning victory or conquest) aphrodoitis (the Greek goddess of love).
Basically, the scientist who named this thing wants to make sure you have a VERY SPECIFIC nightmare about it.
Seems overkill, because if I ever saw the thing, I'd likely have all the nightmares about it, not just that one very specific one.
Biologists don't do subtle very well. The grizzly bear's common name translates as "bear horrible bear," and the Eurasian brown bear's is, "bear bear bear."
"Victorious love worm," is about as obscure as it gets.
https://youtu.be/I8fPRmOWCbA
To be fair "Bear" is thought to come from a word for "brown" because the original name of bears was thought to summon them and everybody thought they were scary as fuck so just referred to them as "brown one".
No. It has pretty firm etymological support given how far back in history the split happened. At some point during protogermanic the original work for bear became a taboo word and replaced by Bero, "the brown one". Before that bears were called "rkto", which we can see in ancient greek where bears are called arktos.
"rkto" is in itself probably a taboo name since it has its roots in a proto-indoeuropean word meaning "the destroyer".
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
When I googled to confirm my memory on this wikitionary mentioned this:
Which is frankly over my head and I don't super care. It's still plausible to say they're brown brown browns and I'm gonna stick with that.
Bears repeating.
Whose a good dog wolf wolf, huh?!
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Bad news: bear
Good news: The Gunslinger followed.
The Western lowland gorilla is gorilla gorilla gorilla
Also, the boa constrictor is the only animal whose common name is identical to its taxonomic name
This is called a "noa word"! Basically "safe" names to use.
In older Swedish we have Hin Håle, a noa word for Satan, that means "the hard one". "Hin" itself means "the other" or "that one", and we have the word "hinsides", meaning "the other side", as in "that's on the other side of...", which originally meant "yep, in the spirit realm".
It's not called the "gorilla gorilla" usually, I mean
Although your second point is a good one :P
The subspecies name is Ursus arctos arctos. Arctos is related to the pre-brown word for bear, and ursus is probably unrelated to either, being "bear" from a whole other language group.
“A gorilla gorilla gorilla?”
“Exactly.”
Switch: nin.codes/roldford
Ursus comes from rktos/arktos. The roman pronounciation is much closer to the proto-italic "orssos", which is in itself rktos where the "kt" has softened into a s-like sound.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Today I learned this.
Also, today I learned that "arctos" was before "arctic." They literally named it, "the place with bears."
Bear related etymology is much farther reaching than I ever would have thought. It's like getting so lost in Wikipedia that you got from spark plugs to toothcarp except its all bears.
MWO: Adamski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2tGTcAVW0A
That Chevy Malibu belongs to the wasps now, friend.
We signed the Benthic Treaty for a reason.
No, it belongs to the fire.
What the motherfucking FUCK is this
It's the apocalypse. We had a good run, but it's time to pack in the civilization thing.