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fucked up how they called this thing the wild beast (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Beest is just Dutch and Afrikaans for animal

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Kinda. Although most people would say "dier" for animal in Afrikaans. Beest could be related to "bees" which is singular for cattle. "Beeste" for the plural. That's what I always thought... That the name was more akin to "wild cattle" than "wild beast".

But I'm not a real animalnameologist so...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In Dutch it leans closer to beast than animal

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

O weird, it doesn't have that connotation for me. I am from Flanders tho, not the Netherlands.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That'll do it

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

European explorer, pointing at wild animal: "Excuse me sir, what is that?"

Local: "It's a wild animal."

European explorer, writing it down: "Thank you!"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No it's the Wild eBeast, the predecessor to the eMachine and the e-mail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Is it related to Wile eCoyote?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

This always reminds me of the Perfectly Normal Beasts from Mostly Harmless.