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this is literally orangutan folklore
>Most Western sources attribute the name "orangutan" (also written orang-utan, orang utan, orangutang, and ourang-outang) to the Malay words orang, meaning 'person', and hutan, meaning 'forest'. The Malay used the term to indicate forest-dwelling humans; the first recorded Malay use of "orang-utan" referring to the ape identifies it as a Western term. There is, however, some evidence to suggest that the term may have been used in regard to apes in premodern Old Malay.
>In Western sources, the first printed attestation of the word for the apes is in Dutch physician Jacobus Bontius's 1631 "Historiae naturalis et medicae Indiae orientalis". He reported that Malays claimed that the ape could talk but preferred not to "lest he be compelled to labour".
bro is literally pretending to not know what is going on so they dont make him work or turn him into a slave