Ahh, the 'ole Lemmy switcheroo.
Hold my cave bears, I’m going in!
This was seriously one of my favorite things on Reddit. I would be happy if it had a Renaissance on Lemmy. Looks like two communities exist but they haven’t gotten much traction. !lemmaroo@lemmy.world and !switcheroo@kbin.social
Bear comes from the Proto-Indo European word for brown. Proto Germanic tribes thought that using the animal’s real name (probably Arkto) would cause it to appear, hence they used the euphemism “The Brown One”. In other European languages they also use taboo naming for bear. For example in Russian, a bear is called Medved (Honey Eater) or in Old Irish it’s mathgamain (Good Calf)
Seems like Bearnia would have been a better name. I’ve seen bears there, but I’ve never seen Romans.
Plus, I suspect the bears were there first.
Okay, but what have the Romans ever done for us?
The Romans had bears and by golly the Greeks had twinks
