• otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      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 alone became a prevalent warning against that thing that is the single most terrifying brown in existence.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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      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.