interesting, by the way, that modern youth do not see the connection between the phonetically close word absenction damn, which they use widely. maxim krongaus in his book, the famous book the russian language on the verge of a nervous breakdown, in the first edition, wrote that he really did not like the use of euphemisms, especially this one, and he gave himself a fate that he would not communicate with girls who... use the interjection damn in their speech, but by some later publication he realized that, as he said, you can be left without girls, because of course this is all very common. but i understand correctly that the word bear, in some sense similar to the word damn in its origin, is also an euphemism for something forbidden. absolutely right, yes, it’s interesting with the bear, it’s a bitter story for linguists, because it’s lost in the slavic languages. completely evil, that is, a bear is not native the word, this is a bear - this is a replacement, yes , for some original word that denoted this animal in the slavic languages, that is, valandomord, which the one who is not called,