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SleepingWolf
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

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Insane since: Jul 2006

posted posted 11-30-2006 00:16

http://www.sleepingwolves.com/blog/?p=108

~ Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. ~
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reisio
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Florida
Insane since: Mar 2005

posted posted 11-30-2006 02:35

http://reisio.com/raccoon.jpeg

Raccoon napping at the apex of the &#8776;>10m sable palm out front. I saw him climb in by way of the limbs at the top from an adjacent (water) oak limb around noon one day. There's a big family of them living here; somtimes at night you can go out and shine a flashlight up into the (southern live) oak and see scores of reflecting eyes... reminds me of the Rats of NIMH.

(Edited by reisio on 11-30-2006 02:45)

reisio
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Florida
Insane since: Mar 2005

posted posted 11-30-2006 02:39

The word "raccoon" is derived from the Algonquian word aroughcoune, "he who scratches with his hands."

Waschbär in German, orsetto lavatore in Italian, &#1108;&#1085;&#1086;&#1090; in Ukrainian, mosómedve in Hungarian, vaskebjørn in Danish and Norwegian, tvättbjörn in Swedish, szop in Polish, mýval in Czech, wasbeer in Dutch, pesukarhu in Finnish, araiguma (&#27927;&#29066 in Japanese, huànxióng (&#28003;&#29066 in Chinese, all mean "washing bear."
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kimson
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Royal Horsing Ground
Insane since: Jan 2005

posted posted 11-30-2006 10:50

... and "raton laveur" in French, which implies two things: the French seem to find it looks more like a rat (raton) rather than a bear; and "laveur", which implies the washing bit.

SleepingWolf
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From:
Insane since: Jul 2006

posted posted 12-01-2006 01:50

OK, my turn

* American-English: coon, rattoon
* Canadian French: chat, chat sauvage, cat, European wildcat
* Danish: skjob, fisher, fur trade name
* Dutch: schob, fisher, fur trade name
* French: raton, raton laveur, little rat, little washer rat
* Finland: siupp, fisher, fur trade name
* German: schupp, fisher, fur trade name; washbär, washer bear, from Linnaeus Ursus lotor
* Latin: Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, 1747: Ursus cauda elongata; 1748: Ursus cauda annulata, fascia per oculos transversali; 1758: Ursus lotor
* Latin: Hernández, Francisco, Historiae Animalium...Novai Hispaniae, 1651: cane melitensi, badgerlike dog
* Lithuanian: sunluskis, dog-bear
* Polish: szop, fisher, fur trade name
* Russian: jenot, fisher, fur trade name
* Spanish: mapache, from Aztec, mapachitli, uses hands; oso lavador, washer bear (from Linnaeus); perro mastin, mudo, tejón, masked, barkless, badgerlike dog, popular usage
* Swedish: sjupp fisher, fur trade name; tváttbjörn, from Linnaeus, washer bear

~ Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. ~
http://www.sleepingwolves.com/



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