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Bone cognates (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by Jakylla to c/linguistics_humor

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Walking humans and bears definitely heel strike. I'm not talking about running.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

even then we don't put our weight on the heel first (unless we're wearing terrible modern shoes that force us to do so), we put weight on the heel and forefoot approximately at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I have been to the real world a couple of times and having seen some people stomp like crazy, I can 100% say you cannot generalize like that.