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[-] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 70 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

This has popped up in the wild a few times recently

Why

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

Interpreter: "Ok he said uh... hang on before I can translate that, do you know who Hannah Montana is?"

[-] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Not just song lyrics, but any piece of media

rantThis is horribly rampant issue on Reddit. Swaths of comments reduced to three-word dialogues from movies that even most Americans may not have seen.

While it might be acceptable in a community specific to that piece of media, it always comes across as lazy everywhere else.

A simple link to a relevant clip or snippet would help contextualise the reference, but if commenters were willing to put in that effort, they probably wouldn't resort to quoting three-word phrases in the first place.

Unfortunately, this practice is becoming common on Lemmy.

Some might see my rant as gatekeeping, but it genuinely hinders meaningful discussion on the topic at hand.

It is a pet peeve of mine that led me to unsubscribe from many, otherwise good, subreddits and eventually leave that platform altogether (thanks to a push from its CEO).

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

shaka when the walls fell

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 8 points 11 months ago

Still a fantastically catchy song

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 42 points 11 months ago

(POLISH)

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[-] ladel@feddit.uk 12 points 11 months ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 11 months ago

Sugar, baby

[-] Metz@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

German is wrong. Its Quak.

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 18 points 11 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

[-] territorial@slrpnk.net 30 points 11 months ago

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

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Oh that would also make sense, yeah

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

ケロケロ

[-] SuperApples@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

"Kerokero" is correct romanization. No problem there.

[-] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 5 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 18 points 11 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

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] expr@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

How is that pronounced? wow-wow-rohn?

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[-] ShadowFlower@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago
[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago
[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 11 points 11 months ago

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

[-] simbico@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago
[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

Gondolom nem lopott, vadi új?

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 11 months ago

Brekeke....

Keke....

Kek.....

[-] bulwark@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hot take, English got it wrong. I've never heard a frog make a sound like "ribbit". German or Turkish, on the other hand, seems like a sensible and appropriate sound a frog would make.

[-] zod000@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 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.

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 10 points 11 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.

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 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.

[-] BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

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

[-] svcg 5 points 11 months ago

Some frogs ribbit. Other frogs croak.

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[-] Ma10gan@slrpnk.net 10 points 11 months ago

mu mu (toki pona).

All animals say "mu" in Toki Pona btw.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

We need a version of "What does the Fox Say" with every animal sound replaced with 'mu'.

[-] marble@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

They're justified and they're ancient!

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 9 points 11 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".

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago
[-] Prefeitura@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 11 months ago

Quero-quero (kerokero), but in Brazil

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

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

[-] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 2 points 11 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.

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Lithuanian is "kva kva"

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Kero Kero

FROPPY!

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