OP OP OPPA GANGNAM STYLE
Wednesday it is, my dudes.
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RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 9 hours ago
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This has popped up in the wild a few times recently
Why
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 29 minutes ago
People reference hit song lyrics all the time. Really muddies discourse with other cultures, sometimes.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 4 hours ago
Still a fantastically catchy song
Routhinator@startrek.website 2 hours 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
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
(POLISH)
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ladel@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
You’re my butterfly
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 38 minutes ago
Sugar, baby
UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 hours ago
ShadowFlower@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Kum Kum
Metz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
German is wrong. Its Quak.
hikaru755@lemmy.world 8 hours 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
territorial@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
Kwaak is correct for Dutch. I suspect someone got Dutch and Deutsch mixed up.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
As seen with Japanese. I don’t speak the language but I’m pretty sure they write it differently.
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Yeah. It sounds correct but the spelling is not known to me
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 5 hours 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.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 hours ago
Brekekekèx-koàx-koáx
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
COQUI - Spanish
guillem@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
Interesting, I say CROAC. Probably there’s a lot of geographical variation.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
Kero Kero
FROPPY!
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 2 hours 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”.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
I dont know why hungarian is there but 💯🇭🇺HUNGARY MENTIONED🇭🇺💯 /s. Also yes we do say brek/brekk or brekeke
dumbass@leminal.space 42 minutes ago
simbico@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Bojler elado!
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Gondolom nem lopott, vadi új?
bulwark@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
zod000@lemmy.ml 9 hours 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.
zurohki@aussie.zone 7 hours 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.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 8 hours 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.
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours 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.
SassyRamen@lemmy.world 9 hours 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
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 4 hours 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
BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Counterpoint: “Kwaak” is the sound a duck makes, so frogs gotta say something else.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Does this correlate to the sounds that the different species of frogs in those regions make?
Ma10gan@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
mu mu (toki pona).
All animals say “mu” in Toki Pona btw.
marble@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
They’re justified and they’re ancient!
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
We need a version of “What does the Fox Say” with every animal sound replaced with ‘mu’.
doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 7 hours ago
I just realised Finnish doesn’t have an onomatopoetic frog sound 🤔
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I’m trying to think about the French one and nothing comes to mind either…
Justas@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Lithuanian is “kva kva”
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 8 hours ago
Hmm I thought we all know frogs go La De Da De Da?
marble@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
They’re justified and they’re ancient!
curiousaur@reddthat.com 55 minutes ago
I like croak way better as the English representation.