Just a note to Bigfoot enthusiasts–the guys on the Astonishing Legends podcast just did a 3-episode deep dive into the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film. Worth a listen if you have any interest at all.
I would love to see a picture of this “rocky place bear” they call Yeti-got one?
There may well be “yeti” sightings in various parts of the world that actually represent known species of bears. But those aren’t 1832-style Bigfoot/yetis.
It is very Credulous man-centric to assume that “natives” possess wisdom/powers of observation not available to non-native “Western White” men.
So, then modern DNA tests that say it’s a bear, we get to ignore them also? The natives name for the yeti is Rocky place bear. DNA tests have come back with it being a Himalayan brown bear or a Asian black bear or possibly a cross.
In other words, a perfectly ordinary very well known species of bear.
And the local name for “floating log” is “Loch Ness Monster.” So certainly there is a Loch Ness Monster.:dubious:
In what way?
What exactly is a Yeti in your own definition? What attributes would a creature need for you to say, “that’s a Yeti” by your definition?
If someone worships their toaster, does that prove that God Exists?
That’s such a non-sequitur I can’t even fathom what it means.
Based on recent appearances in pop culture, it speaks english.
Based on ALL appearances in pop culture, it’s regular mode of locomotion is bipedal.
Idiot : There is no such thing as a UFO
Sensible person : Here is a proven list of objects that were flying and the observer was unable to identify them.
Idiot : But none of them were alien spaceships, so they weren’t UFOs
You’re so charming. But that’s NOT the situation with the word Yeti. Sorry sucker, but English has made that word its own, and it don’t mean “bear”.
Atheist: Gods aren’t real.
Smartass: I have declared that my coffee cup is a god. Prove me wrong.
Idiot: Atheism has been disproven because of gross misuse of words! Woo!
(Note: I have played both the atheist and the smartass in this scenario.)
I thought Yetis were furry robots contolled by the Great Intelligence with little silver spheres that were hidden in the Yetis’ chest cavities.
Sorry, sucker, but “yeti” is a Tibetan word and the fact that some Great White Hunters or Mountain Climbers didn’t understand it does not really change its meaning.
That the Sherpas live there is kind of a reason to think they understand the yeti better than the Europeans who dropped in from time to time and got excited about seeing something perfectly natural.
Oh come on now. You know that’s not correct.
Now if the Scots had been along along saying that the LNM was a wels, and they caught a very large wels, then yes, I’d say that the LNM was nothing all along but a giant catfish and a bunch of hoaxes. But they havent.
The natives say the Yeti is a bear. The DNA tests say “bear” (some debate about species, including one incredibly rare subspecies.). So- bear. The Yeti hasn’t had the level of outright hoaxes that the LNM and sasquatch has had. The natives have always claimed it is a very real but rare animal.
The okapi was also originally thought to be a hoax. But then they found it. So, does that mean they didnt find the okapi?
Architeuthis was also thought to be a myth or hoax, but now we know that the Giant squid really exists. Do the many decades of bogus reports (and real reports thought hoaxes) mean they what they finally found wasnt *really *a giant squid?
Yes, the yeti was a bear all along. Yes, there were a few hoaxes and many bogus hypothesis as to what it was. That doesnt mean it wasnt real.
yet·i
/ˈyedē/
noun
a large hairy creature resembling a human or bear, said to live in the highest part of the Himalayas.
*Definition of yeti in English:
yeti
NOUN
A large hairy creature resembling a human or bear, said to live in the highest part of the Himalayas.
Also called Abominable Snowman
Example sentences
Origin
1930s: apparently from a term in Sherpa (a local language) that is related to Tibetan gya ‘rocky place’ + dred ‘yellow bear, hyena’.*
Yep, “bear”.
As a starting point, can we all agree that there is no Island of Misfit Toys?
I thought it was The Island of MOSFET Toys.
Or according to Bernard Heuvelmans’s On the Track of Unknown Animals: from Nepali ye / yi ‘there’, and Nepali ti, Tibetan teh ‘a living creature’ – thus, approximately, “that creature over there”. (Though admittedly, general consensus nowadays would seem to be that Heuvelmans, though passionately engaged with his subject, did not overall have much clue about it.)