Quero-quero (kerokero), but in Brazil
brakka out of placers!?!?!?!?
How frogs sound in french -
“Bonjour”
As usual, the Germans are fucking wrong. That’s what ducks sound like dumb asses!
It’s just differently written but the sound is correct
개굴개굴 개구리 노래를 한다
아들 손자 며느리 다아 모여서
밤새도록 하여도 듣는 이 없네
듣는사람 없어도 날이 밝도록
I like croak way better as the English representation.
croak is the term for the sound, ribbit is the onomatopeia
Oddly enough croak is likely also onomatopoeia (imitative)
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.
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
How is that pronounced? wow-wow-rohn?
Correct
A beautiful word we learned from the first nations, probably the Wendat.
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”.
OP OP
OPPA GANGNAM STYLE
This has popped up in the wild a few times recently
Why
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?”
Not just song lyrics, but any piece of media
rant
This 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).
shaka when the walls fell
Still a fantastically catchy song
(POLISH)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
You’re my butterfly
Sugar, baby
German is wrong. Its Quak.
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
Kwaak is correct for Dutch. I suspect someone got Dutch and Deutsch mixed up.
Oh that would also make sense, yeah
As seen with Japanese. I don’t speak the language but I’m pretty sure they write it differently.
“Kerokero” is correct romanization. No problem there.
ケロケロ
Yeah. It sounds correct but the spelling is not known to me
Kum Kum
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.
COQUI - Spanish
Interesting, I say CROAC. Probably there’s a lot of geographical variation.
That’s the name of a frog common to Puerto Rico, it makes a sound just like it’s name
I dont know why hungarian is there but 💯🇭🇺HUNGARY MENTIONED🇭🇺💯 /s. Also yes we do say brek/brekk or brekeke
Brekeke…
Keke…
Kek…
Bojler elado!
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