fucked up how they called this thing the wild beast

ryven , 5 months ago

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

Deestan , 5 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!"

Gork , 5 months ago

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

embed_me , 5 months ago

Is it related to Wile eCoyote?

gentooer , 5 months ago

Beest is just Dutch and Afrikaans for animal

bownage , 5 months ago

In Dutch it leans closer to beast than animal

gentooer , 5 months ago

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

bownage , 5 months ago

That'll do it

veroxii , 5 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...