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Wednesday it is, my dudes.
Submitted 4 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
Metz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
German is wrong. Its Quak.
hikaru755@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 weeks ago
Kwaak is correct for Dutch. I suspect someone got Dutch and Deutsch mixed up.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
As seen with Japanese. I don’t speak the language but I’m pretty sure they write it differently.
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Yeah. It sounds correct but the spelling is not known to me
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
How frogs sound in french -
“Bonjour”
Routhinator@startrek.website 4 weeks 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
expr@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
How is that pronounced? wow-wow-rohn?
Routhinator@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
Correct
luciole@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
A beautiful word we learned from the first nations, probably the Wendat.
curiousaur@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I like croak way better as the English representation.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
croak is the term for the sound, ribbit is the onomatopeia
bricklove@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I dont know why hungarian is there but 💯🇭🇺HUNGARY MENTIONED🇭🇺💯 /s. Also yes we do say brek/brekk or brekeke
simbico@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Bojler elado!
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Gondolom nem lopott, vadi új?
dumbass@leminal.space 4 weeks ago
bulwark@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Counterpoint: “Kwaak” is the sound a duck makes, so frogs gotta say something else.
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Some frogs ribbit. Other frogs croak.
davidagain@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
TheBroodian@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
As usual, the Germans are fucking wrong. That’s what ducks sound like dumb asses!
Micromot@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It’s just differently written but the sound is correct
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 4 weeks 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”.
Ma10gan@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
mu mu (toki pona).
All animals say “mu” in Toki Pona btw.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
We need a version of “What does the Fox Say” with every animal sound replaced with ‘mu’.
marble@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
They’re justified and they’re ancient!
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
COQUI - Spanish
guillem@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Interesting, I say CROAC. Probably there’s a lot of geographical variation.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
That’s the name of a frog common to Puerto Rico, it makes a sound just like it’s name
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Does this correlate to the sounds that the different species of frogs in those regions make?
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
Prefeitura@lemmy.eco.br 4 weeks ago
Justas@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Lithuanian is “kva kva”
doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
I just realised Finnish doesn’t have an onomatopoetic frog sound 🤔
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’m trying to think about the French one and nothing comes to mind either…
rain_worl@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
brakka out of placers!?!?!?!?
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Kero Kero
FROPPY!
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Hmm I thought we all know frogs go La De Da De Da?
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
개굴개굴 개구리 노래를 한다
아들 손자 며느리 다아 모여서
밤새도록 하여도 듣는 이 없네
듣는사람 없어도 날이 밝도록
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Brekekekèx-koàx-koáx
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This has popped up in the wild a few times recently
Why
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
People reference hit song lyrics all the time. Really muddies discourse with other cultures, sometimes.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 4 weeks ago
Still a fantastically catchy song