A Yeti By Any Other Name
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Mountaineer Makoto Nebuka has taken an interesting linguistic approach to solving the question of the Yeti’s existence:
Abominable Snowman ‘just a bear’
Sydney Morning HeraldA Japanese mountaineer is attempting to settle once and for all the decades-long debate over the existence of the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, claiming that his years of study have shown that the legendary apelike monster is in fact a brown bear.
Makoto Nebuka, 56, a senior member of the Japanese Alpine Club, plans to publish the results of his 12 years of research which led him to conclude the mysterious creature, known as the “Yeti,” is really the endangered Himalayan Brown Bear (Ursus Arctos).
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Nebuka’s theory rests on a linguistic discovery: Through a series of interviews with local people in Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan, he has found that “yeti” is a regional dialect word for “meti”, meaning bear.
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Posted to Little-known Facts • 2003.09.21 (Sun) • 12:46
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Posted by Flame Critic 2003.09.22, 10:02
Great ! Now … just wish they would put to rest the other long standing dinosaurs such as logness and the ufos ….
Posted by David 2003.09.22, 18:18
Is that Loch Ness you mean? :-D
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Posted by Andy 2003.09.22, 21:38
A bear, maybe? Just watch out for those “snow cones”
Posted by eric 2003.09.23, 02:31
well… i guess bears are pretty interesting too.
Posted by Robot Johnny 2003.09.23, 04:09
Twelve years, huh?
Posted by justin 2003.10.03, 07:28
I love how the bubble economy was able to spawn so many ‘japanese researchers’ basically those living off the crust who could afford to spend so much time and money on their sometimes inane obsessive pursuits… is it actually real science? maybe? like the japanese rasta guy i met who spent 6 years in jamaica to learn to play perfect reggae. karaoke doesn’t get any better than this, babay!
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