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Not to mention the actual names. “There’s a bear. What should we call it?” “Well, it’s black. Let’s call it a Black Bear.” “How about that one? It’s brown.” “We’ll call it a Brown Bear.”

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zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bony-eared_assfish

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- marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  The bony-eared assfish has been distinguished, by some sources, as having the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of any vertebrate.
  
  When biologists decide to burn something, they just go on and on.
  
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- HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  yeah but those are jerks
  
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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
First two sound like Ubuntu releases.

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Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Fun fact, the original word for bear has been lost because people refused to mention them directly - like Voldemort

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- FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  All original words have been lost because language changes…
  
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- GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This isn’t really true though. Although many IE langauges don’t use a descendant of *h₂r̥ktos, plenty of languages do, e.g. French ours, Albanian ari, Greek άρκτος, Welsh arth etc.
  
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Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ah hut they’re not called bears, we just have to call them that or we upset the bear god who will end us if we say their real name.

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