It’s the gorillast of them all
The guy who named it was running away from it in a panic at the time. “AH FUCK! GORILLA! GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA!”
For a long time humans were classified as homo sapien sapien
Wait, they took one of our sapiens? The bastards!
Not that I’ve heard of. Now, whether Homo sapiens idaltu is a real separate species from Homo sapiens sapiens is disputed, so there’s a question as to whether the second sapiens actually differentiates us from anything… but I haven’t seen any signs of any consensus against calling ourselves Homo sapiens sapiens to date.
See also: Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos)
Ursus is Latin for bear and arctos is Greek for…bear.
It’s the bear bear bear!
Bonus fun fact: Arctic means “the place with bears” and Antarctic means “the place without bears”
I think you have it the wrong way around. Ursus is Latin and arctos is Greek.
Oops! I really should be 💯 on it by now since it’s been one of my favorite facts for several years 😄
Anyways, thanks for the correction, I’ll go ahead and edit it 😁
Arctic and Antarctic don’t mean anything about actual bears. They are named after the Ursa Major constellation. The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.
But isn’t Ursa Major a bear?
no, she’s a major general in the forces, you hippie!
They are, in fact, the very model of a modern major general!
They have information vegetable, animal and mineral!Dammit, beat me by 5 minutes! I tip my hat to you, good sir/madam/other 👌🎩
Yes, it means “The great bear” or “The big bear”.
I miss those days, now it’s all boring version control
OP missed a good opportunity to title this post “goriginallity”
Disgusted slow clap
The most gorilla gorilla that ever gorillaed.
Shit, here we go again.
If you have a problem with neurodivergent ape namers, please understand that you’re wrong wrong wrong.
Is the other species the Western Highland Gorilla(Agorilla gorilla gorilla)?
Edit: it’s not, it’s the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) Also, here’s a graphic for y’all to enjoy:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Ignoring capitalisation you can add as many buffalos as you like and still be parsable. I’ve only ever heard buffalo used as a verb in this one context, though, so seems a bit forced to me
The scuttlebutt is that buffalo as a verb was only attested very briefly in upstate New York and the Midwest for a brief period of time in the early 1900s. It never spread nationally, and definitely not internationally.
However, checking Google ngrams shows that “he buffaloed” and “was buffaloed”, (to ensure it’s being used idiomatically as a verb and not just in the famous example sentence) emerged in 1900, peaked in the 1950s, but has sustained small but constant use in published print since then. I was actually expecting the ngram to rapidly drop off and never recover… shocked to see that some people still use it as a real phrase.
You’re doing the lord’s work
That’s Grape Ape. I suspect you wanted Magilla Gorilla
nope, purposefully the purple beast. i was goin for the ape consonance
