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

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Beest is just Dutch and Afrikaans for animal

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

In Dutch it leans closer to beast than animal

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

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