(rough-reporting of unnamed local connecting unidentified sound with European explorers comparisons to Western "wild man" stories with the "Ya-Tay" and loose-translation using ANCIENT writing and a dozen different alt-words to get "Abominable Snow-Man" were 2 different accounts)
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More than once I've come across the fantasy/horror idea that, if the original name for bears is ever discovered, it really would summon them, in all their primal power and dire terror, the modern beast called "bear" frail and feeble by comparison, and humanity would be doomed.
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We certainly seem to have been afraid of them longer and further back than almost anything else - possibly because none of the other obligate carnivores stayed so much larger than us on land.
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There is evidence biological desperation is driving polar bears to mate with grizzlies, creating the "grolar bear", a monster hybrid that is basically recreating Ice Age giant bears. I'm sure this will end well for everyone involved.pic.twitter.com/1INzpWEagG
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Weeeell, we’re fucked.
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Just to correct a misconception: There's no "oldest language", only languages that have been recorded before others.
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I'll never forget that Yeti is literally translated as 'That thing over there '
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I know it won't happen but I'd love to see a Big Picture episode how bears went in pop culture from that, to this:pic.twitter.com/t8rPZUry5N
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