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Flat_Truth ago

You saying the Barenstein Bears were always the Berenstain Bears? Maybe that's a little too complicated, yeah, to appeal to those of lesser intellect, he might ought to stay away from that whole "mandella effect" thing.

HomeboyChrisBanned ago

I actually kind of remember notating the bizarre spelling of Berenstain Bears back then. Maybe I was the only one who noticed it.

Flat_Truth ago

Just try it....lol, try asking someone from that generation how the Bear's name was spelled.....almost all will say "stein". Quite the phenomena.

icydays33 ago

Not really. It comes down to the human brain only paying attention to the first and last letters of a word. "Stein" is a common spelling overall than "stain" so it's not weird at all that most people think that's how it was spelled.

Maybe the Mandela effect is a legitimate curious phenomenon but the Berenstain example is terrible on many levels.

Azagthoth ago

Mandela has convinced me there is mass hypnosis in play. How can so many people be disillusioned by something so nonsensical?

Flat_Truth ago

Two distinct pronunciations...that's where it bothers those who were familiar or learned to read with the Books. To them it was pronounced "Steen" and now it's pronounced "Stane". I can see where they'd be feeling like they were being messed with. But we all know its impossible that the name actually changed. Julianne Huxley said at the 1950's science conference, that evolution was no longer a theory, science has no place for the supernatural and evolution is now fact.

icydays33 ago

But they're books, right? Not like a tv show or a movie? So how would people know how to pronounce it if they never heard the name in an official fashion, like from a tv show? Then they would pronounce it according to what they read. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.

I don't see the relevance of evolution on this topic however.

Flat_Truth ago

It was also a TV show. And pronouncing the spelling "stain" as "steen" is odd. Many children had conflict between the two popular shows....Barenstein Bears pronounced "Steen" and Frankenstein, pronounced "stine" with the same spelling.

icydays33 ago

Ah I see. Then yes, it is odd. Thank you for clarifying.