Cats Rule
Cats Rule
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The Japanese word for cat, “neko”, apparently etymologically translates as “quadruped that goes ‘nyan’” (which is the Japanese equivalent of “meow”). The Mandarin word for cat, IIRC, is “mao”.
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The cat's penis (Mao Zedong)
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Also, small birds are “tori” in Japanese, likely after the sing-song sound they make (tri-tri-triii)
Ducks are named after a quacking sound in English... And Indonesian&Malaysian; “bebek”!
I could go on for a while but in general it's not very uncommon for animals to be named like a Pokémon!
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Wait until you find out why it's called a Whippoorwill.
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hence nyancat but I don't know where the poptart and rainbow come from.
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A rare breed that got hunted to extinction from meme overuse
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I was there, 5000 thousand years ago, toiling in the mines for the memes. But we went too deep...something wake up...
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In thaï and lao it's meo also.
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But what about Mao Disease?
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I read somewhere that there's another story of origin (maybe folk etymology though) that "Neko" means something like "star-child" (nagareboshi no ko)
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In German, children often call dogs "Wauwau" and "Mietze" is another word for cat that's also onomatopoetic.
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