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Wednesday it is, my dudes.

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OP OP OPPA GANGNAM STYLE

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    • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This has popped up in the wild a few times recently

      Why

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        People reference hit song lyrics all the time. Really muddies discourse with other cultures, sometimes.

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      • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Still a fantastically catchy song

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    (POLISH)

    ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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    • ladel@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re my butterfly

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sugar, baby

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    • UlyssesT@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      volcel-kamala

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  • Metz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    German is wrong. Its Quak.

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    • hikaru755@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I suspect that’s deliberate to make someone that speaks English and doesn’t know German still get the correct impression of what it actually sounds like, rather than get the spelling right

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      • territorial@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Kwaak is correct for Dutch. I suspect someone got Dutch and Deutsch mixed up.

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      • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        As seen with Japanese. I don’t speak the language but I’m pretty sure they write it differently.

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    • MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah. It sounds correct but the spelling is not known to me

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  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How frogs sound in french -

    “Bonjour”

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  • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Forgot the best one.

    The French have a few examples of naming things the way they sound. Their word for bullfrog is the sound they make:

    Ouaouaron

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    • expr@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How is that pronounced? wow-wow-rohn?

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      • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Correct

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    • luciole@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A beautiful word we learned from the first nations, probably the Wendat.

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  • curiousaur@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like croak way better as the English representation.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah “ribbit” is a bit like bow wow. Someone find me a dog that says bow wow and I’ll find you an honest man in congress.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      croak is the term for the sound, ribbit is the onomatopeia

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      • bricklove@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oddly enough croak is likely also onomatopoeia (imitative)

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  • ShadowFlower@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kum Kum

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If I must

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  • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I dont know why hungarian is there but 💯🇭🇺HUNGARY MENTIONED🇭🇺💯 /s. Also yes we do say brek/brekk or brekeke

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    • simbico@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bojler elado!

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      • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Gondolom nem lopott, vadi új?

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    • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Brekeke…

      Keke…

      Kek…

      Image

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  • bulwark@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Got take, English got it wrong. I’ve never heard a frog make a sound like"ribbit". German out Turkish seems like a sensible sounds a frog would make.

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    • zod000@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve definitely heard some sort of frog/toad make the “ribbit” sound, but I’d say the German “kwaak” is probably more common. The various Asian sounds seem odd to me though. I suppose it is entirely possible the frogs makes different sounds there.

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      • zurohki@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        IIRC different species of frogs make wildly different sounds, so all of the languages might just be what type of frog lives in that country.

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    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hot take, English got it wrong. I’ve never heard a frog make a sound like “ribbit”.

      It’s a real thing. Super common in the Southern US when I was a kid.

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      • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, that’s the kind of frog sound I’ve always known to be most prominent. I was also wondering just how much the most common species in a region affects the onomatopoeia, along with the language used.

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    • SassyRamen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have you ever set by a creek on a warm summer night? It’s more like riib riib riib riib, but I can see where ribbit came from

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      • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        When I was young and lived in the country with a big pond and marshland, most of the frogs went “THUMMM” at night (like this m.youtube.com/watch?v=6qHBRXLHXnc) and the others were more like a high pitch creaky door or one of those hollow wooden frogs with the back ridges that you play with a stick, like this m.youtube.com/watch?v=p-XPYXuCOjg

        I’ve never lived near any sort of frogs that I’d describe as making a riib sound

        I think this is the sound you are talking about? It’s kinda harder to pick out, but there’s a distinct riib sound there that’s absent from the other video. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8fJWGKbXw4Y

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    • BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Counterpoint: “Kwaak” is the sound a duck makes, so frogs gotta say something else.

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    • svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some frogs ribbit. Other frogs croak.

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    • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fin fact: Most frogs don’t say ribbit, but one of the earliest film sound libraries included a frog that does say ribbit, and so that sound is the sound of a frog in many films and television programs, but not in nature documentaries which record their own audio.

      So much of the English speaking world, far, far more broadly than the spread of that type of frog, think frogs typically say ribbit.

      If you watch a nature documentary about frogs, you’ll hear a vast array of different sounds, and this map will make much more sense.

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  • TheBroodian@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As usual, the Germans are fucking wrong. That’s what ducks sound like dumb asses!

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    • Micromot@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s just differently written but the sound is correct

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  • Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a Julia Donaldson - Axel Scheffler children’s book called “Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book” in which the sound a frog makes is “reddit”.

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  • Ma10gan@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    mu mu (toki pona).

    All animals say “mu” in Toki Pona btw.

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    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We need a version of “What does the Fox Say” with every animal sound replaced with ‘mu’.

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    • marble@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re justified and they’re ancient!

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  • frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Amphibians are so sick. My parents made a little fish pond like ten years ago and of all the cool things to visit/reside in it over the years the frogs are the coolest by far.

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    COQUI - Spanish

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    • guillem@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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      • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s the name of a frog common to Puerto Rico, it makes a sound just like it’s name

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  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does this correlate to the sounds that the different species of frogs in those regions make?

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    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly what i was thinking, it would be like asking people what a bird sounds like and getting completely different results from different locales.

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  • Prefeitura@lemmy.eco.br ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

    Quero-quero (kerokero), but in Brazil

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  • Justas@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lithuanian is “kva kva”

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  • doublepepperoni@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just realised Finnish doesn’t have an onomatopoetic frog sound 🤔

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m trying to think about the French one and nothing comes to mind either…

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  • rain_worl@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    brakka out of placers!?!?!?!?

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kero Kero

    FROPPY!

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  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hmm I thought we all know frogs go La De Da De Da?

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  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    개굴개굴 개구리 노래를 한다

    아들 손자 며느리 다아 모여서

    밤새도록 하여도 듣는 이 없네

    듣는사람 없어도 날이 밝도록

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  • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Brekekekèx-koàx-koáx

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  • marble@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re justified and they’re ancient!

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