>>1192445I'm not even fucking kidding, the nickname redirection game for bears went on for literally millenia. For many words, we can trace the history of that word back to Proto-Indo-European, five thousand five hundred years ago.
But when you trace "bear" back, you get redirection after redirection until you FINALLy land in P-I-E and the original name was...
Just another fucking nickname. The real name of the bear has been hidden in history, never written down, because if you did then you fucking died. Do not conjure by the true name of the brown demon, it will fucking murder you.
Except we've probably stopped. "Bear" sounds like the real name of the animal and our post-minié firearms mean we are powerful enough that we haven't felt the need to adopt a new term for the beast, we no longer fear it.
Haha just kidding we've redirected again, because the beast we have nicknamed "Grizzly" is fucking terrifying.
