Comment on Cave Bears

gens@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 became a permanent warning against that thing that the single most terrifying brown in existence.

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  • sepia_sempervirens@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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, possibility 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.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Describes the stimulus and the response.

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• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • M137@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I came across your mom the other day.

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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