fossilesque@mander.xyz to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 1 year agoCats Rulemander.xyzimagemessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThe 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”.
minus-squareGingaNinga@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agohence nyancat but I don’t know where the poptart and rainbow come from.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoA rare breed that got hunted to extinction from meme overuse
minus-squareFantasmaNaCasca@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 days agoI was there, 5000 thousand years ago, toiling in the mines for the memes. But we went too deep…something woke up…
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”.
hence nyancat but I don’t know where the poptart and rainbow come from.
A rare breed that got hunted to extinction from meme overuse
I was there, 5000 thousand years ago, toiling in the mines for the memes.
But we went too deep…something woke up…