Comment on Le Penguini

• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s actually bears. The north is named by the Greeks after the Ursa Major constellation in the north literally “big bear”. So it’s the bear place. While the south is the opposite of the bears.

  Happy coincidence it ended up matching polar bear ranges.

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• sga@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  its the other way round for bears i think

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bear without penguins and bear with penguins? I’m no bearologist but I don’t think that’s right.

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  • troybot@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So for bears Arctic means land with penguins

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There aren’t many bears on Lemmy, though, so we don’t need to use their terminology.

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  • Ooops@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But the bear referenced there is not the animal but the constellation…

    Arctic = towards the bear, so north

    Antarctic = the opposite (=ant[i]) direction

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• ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Doesn’t ‘ant’ mean not and ‘arc’ is without? So it’s really closer to ‘without penguins’ and ‘not without penguins’

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  • Ooops@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “Arktos” is greek for bear.

    The arctis is the region towards the bear, meaning the constellation so north… while the antarctis is the opposite direction (ant(i) = opposite).

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  • cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    grok is this true

    simpsons bart and homer “worst day of your life so far” meme template, first panel text “i don’t think that’s true” second panel text “it’s not true yet”

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