Comment on originality

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Pringles@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think you have it the wrong way around. Ursus is Latin and arctos is Greek.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oops! I really should be 💯 on it by now since it’s been one of favorite facts for several years 😄

    Anyways, thanks for the correction, I’ll go ahead and edit it 😁

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• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Arctic and Antarctic don’t mean anything about actual bears. They are named after the Ursa Major constellation. The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.

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  • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But isn’t Ursa Major a bear?

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      no, she’s a major general in the forces, you hippie!

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      • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They are, in fact, the very model of a modern major general!
        They have information vegetable, animal and mineral!

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Lunar’s the loony, I’M the hippie!

        Would you say that she’s the very model of a modern Major General, or would that be going too far?

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    • Pringles@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, it means “The great bear” or “The big bear”.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ursa Major means "the great bear“, though. Being named after something that’s named bear counts in my book as well as those of all but the worst pedants.

    The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.

    That’s what the secretly hyper-intelligent penguins who scared away the polar bears WANT you to think!

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• OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You’re fucking kidding me

  I’m renaming the arctic from now on

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  • silverchase@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Bearritory

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