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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
How frogs sound in french -
“Bonjour”
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.
Yeah. It sounds correct but the spelling is not known to me
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.
I like croak way better as the English representation.
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.
croak is the term for the sound, ribbit is the onomatopeia
Oddly enough croak is likely also onomatopoeia (imitative)
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”.
Kum Kum
If I must
I dont know why hungarian is there but 💯🇭🇺HUNGARY MENTIONED🇭🇺💯 /s. Also yes we do say brek/brekk or brekeke
Bojler elado!
Gondolom nem lopott, vadi új?
Brekeke…
Keke…
Kek…
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
Does this correlate to the sounds that the different species of frogs in those regions make?
Exactly what i was thinking, it would be like asking people what a bird sounds like and getting completely different results from different locales.
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.
mu mu (toki pona).
All animals say “mu” in Toki Pona btw.
We need a version of “What does the Fox Say” with every animal sound replaced with ‘mu’.
They’re justified and they’re ancient!
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 just realised Finnish doesn’t have an onomatopoetic frog sound 🤔
