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[pjme]

Harry, bedoel je eigenlijk "ongelikte beer"?

Ik vond deze verklaring:

Anyone who behaves rudely runs the risk of being called an 'unlicked bear'. This saying comes from Roman folklore.
The Romans thought young bears looked strange. According to them, the animals were not yet 'finished'. What the young bears needed was a good mother who licked them a lot. Only then would they start to look like a real bear. The Roman poet Ovid wrote the following about it in his Metamorphoses

'The young of the bear look like a living lump when they are born. They have no shape of their own; their mother gives them their shape by licking them.'

The idea of the bear that has to be licked to become a real bear may seem strange, but young bears are indeed quite helpless when they are born and bear mothers have almost a full-time job licking their young.

Source: https://historiek.net/ongelikte-beer/43024/

and

F.A. Stoett refers to the Metamorphoses of the Roman poet Ovid. It states that the young of the bear look like a shapeless ball when they are born and that their mother gives them their shape by licking them. This is how the idea could arise that bears that were not licked into shape by their mother, i.e. unlicked bears, grew up to be uncivilized creatures.

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[Florestan]

An image is worth a thousand words. I think that what @Harry means is this:



 

[Harry]

An image is worth a thousand words. I think that what @Harry means is this:



 

Correct, that too, but it's   just a part of what I actually meant

[Harry]

Harry, bedoel je eigenlijk "ongelikte beer"?

Ik vond deze verklaring:

Anyone who behaves rudely runs the risk of being called an 'unlicked bear'. This saying comes from Roman folklore.
The Romans thought young bears looked strange. According to them, the animals were not yet 'finished'. What the young bears needed was a good mother who licked them a lot. Only then would they start to look like a real bear. The Roman poet Ovid wrote the following about it in his Metamorphoses

'The young of the bear look like a living lump when they are born. They have no shape of their own; their mother gives them their shape by licking them.'

The idea of the bear that has to be licked to become a real bear may seem strange, but young bears are indeed quite helpless when they are born and bear mothers have almost a full-time job licking their young.

Source: https://historiek.net/ongelikte-beer/43024/

and

F.A. Stoett refers to the Metamorphoses of the Roman poet Ovid. It states that the young of the bear look like a shapeless ball when they are born and that their mother gives them their shape by licking them. This is how the idea could arise that bears that were not licked into shape by their mother, i.e. unlicked bears, grew up to be uncivilized creatures.

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Dat is een verklaring voor wat een ongelikte beer kan zijn, maar ik bedoelde echt "Shabby" en dat heeft een andere betekenis.  Maar ik moest wel even grinniken toen ik jou bericht las. Mijn dank voor de lach

[ChamberNut]

An image is worth a thousand words. I think that what @Harry means is this:



 

Ahh, so this is what AI comes up with when asked for a "shabby bear" portrait? 

[Den glemte sønnen]

@Harry is GMG's favorite shabby bear. Let him have his hibernation in peace!

[DavidW]

An image is worth a thousand words. I think that what @Harry means is this:



 

Harry? I thought that was John Muir!

[DavidW]

Ahh, so this is what AI comes up with when asked for a "shabby bear" portrait? 

You might want to refrain from asking the internet for a bear... 

[Harry]

Harry? I thought that was John Muir!

You found me out! Congrats    

[Spotted Horses]

Yes, and I still remember the original Scarpia avatar.

I had forgotten that. It was an old photo of a mid 20th century opera singer, I think. I checked google images and I don't see it there, and I don't seem to have a copy on my computer. That was a long time ago, at least a decade, I think.

[ChamberNut]

I had forgotten that. It was an old photo of a mid 20th century opera singer, I think. I checked google images and I don't see it there, and I don't seem to have a copy on my computer. That was a long time ago, at least a decade, I think.

Yes, and it was a black and white photo.

[Spotted Horses]

Yes, and it was a black and white photo.

Yes, and scowling.

Remarkable how you can leave traces of memory in the world where you would least expect it.

[ChamberNut]

And although @DavidW more often than not did not have an avatar, I do remember him with a Mendelssohn avatar at one point.

[DavidW]

And although @DavidW more often than not did not have an avatar, I do remember him with a Mendelssohn avatar at one point.

I think that was Saul actually. I used Haydn as my avatar in the past, and that was back confusingly enough when I was mahlerfan.

[Karl Henning]

Specifically Danish?!? With an ä?

That alone makes me want to avoid their ice cream. If you're going to be inauthentic you could at least try to get it right. In Danish they use æ.

Let alone the supposed double vowel with a diacritic over just one.

Their ice cream is good, but I remember hearing years ago about the name and company's background. 

The company originated in the Scandinavian capital of The Bronx.

[Luke]

Let alone the supposed double vowel with a diacritic over just one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut

[Karl Henning]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut

Just so.

[Madiel]

Now I'm wondering whether aä would be possible in Finnish. But I strongly suspect not. EDIT: Confirmed. It violates vowel harmony.

Whereas both aa and ää are definitely possible.

[Kalevala]

Now I'm wondering whether aä would be possible in Finnish. But I strongly suspect not. EDIT: Confirmed. It violates vowel harmony.

Whereas both aa and ää are definitely possible.

May I ask as to how/why you ended up learning Danish?

K

[Den glemte sønnen]

May I ask as to how/why you ended up learning Danish?

K

It might has something to do with one of his favorite composers: Vagn Holmboe.