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Animorphs ass picture lol
Chinese is cool like that
Lobster is "dragon shrimp"
Crawfish is "little dragon shrimp"
Sometimes it's less cool. The word for America is "Beautiful Country". Měiguó (Měi is beautiful guó is country).
France is "Country of laws". Although I think they didn't sit down and decide they should be complementary it's still less cool.
Should make it country of pedophiles lol
I think they're a little constrained by needing to make it close-ish phonetically
They did decide it should be complimentary I think. This was back in the imperial days when they wanted to cultivate good relations with foreign countries.
That's possible, I will admit to not knowing and google giving me contradictory answers.
Yeah I don’t know for sure either it’s just something I was told when I was a kid
No no the origin of 法国 is a transliteration of removed
No no the origin of 法国 is a transliteration of removed
That's an unfortunate censor
spoiler
It's a bit
Ah. My bad.
Shrimp oddly enough is "mundane lobster"
This can't be legal like how is shrimp named with lobster and lobster named with shrimp
It's not lol he's joking
Mundane Lobster is a hell of a band name, though. EDM that uses samples of Jordan Peterson having his various meltdowns, maybe? 
in turkish it means "baykuş" which litterally means "misterbird"
Is there a misses bird?
unfortunatley not
I spent a good while looking for the fascist symbol until I realized you meant the US flag with the bald eagle 
owl(n.) "raptorial nocturnal bird of prey of the family Strigidæ," Middle English oule, from Old English ule "owl," from Proto-Germanic *uwwalon- (source also of Middle Dutch, Dutch uil, Old High German uwila, German Eule, Old Norse ugla), a diminutive of PIE root *u(wa)l-, which is imitative of a wail or an owl's hoot (compare howl and Latin ulula "owl;" also see ululation). https://www.etymonline.com/word/owl
Europeans just imitated its noise. What a lazy name compared to cat-headed eagle.
That's also where mao (cat) comes from, I'm pretty sure
mao first catboy confirmed 
The near-universal European word now, it appeared in Europe as Latin catta (Martial, c. 75 C.E.), Byzantine Greek katta (c. 350) and was in general use on the continent by c. 700, replacing Latin feles. It is probably ultimately Afro-Asiatic (compare Nubian kadis, Berber kadiska, both meaning "cat").
Huh, I never knew cat had such a mysterious etymology. I read through a few posts and can't trace it beyond "maybe it comes from some African language and refers to a region? 
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I heard the ancient egyptian word for cat was "miew"
i literally can't understand anything this is trying to say
The Chinese word for owl literally translates to cat head eagle
owls are eagles with the head of a cat
Should be “poop head eagle” because they’re so stinky
"Poop head eagle" is pigeons
In japanese it's usually written in kana, but the kanji is 梟, which means to expose a decapitated head like ~~Montesquieu~~ Robespierre
Edit: Wrong fr*nch.