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minus-squareapex32@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·1 month agoReminds me of the Rice Krispies onomatopoeic noises in different languages: English: Snap! Crackle! Pop! Danish: Pif! Paf! Puf! Swedish: Piff! Paff! Puff! German: Knisper! Knasper! Knusper! Spanish: Pim! Pam! Pum! Finnish: Riks! Raks! Poks! French: Cric! Crac! Croc! Dutch: Pif! Paf! Pof! Afrikaans: Knap! Knetter! Knak! Belgium: Poos! Pas! Pes! Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_Krispies
minus-squareprotist@retrofed.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 month agoInteresting that English is the only language where this isn’t alliterative.
minus-squareflambonkscious@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWhile you are correct, I feel it’s important to point out how lately you’ve been missing your ‘outside enrichments’…
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoI love how sometimes language unites us and sometimes it makes us humorously question the sanity of anyone too different from us 😄
minus-square5765313496@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI had no idea that vowel progression (I A O/U) was so common in European languages. Interesting!
minus-squareNTe@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoPolish: “Under the dog weather”
minus-squareInFerNo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThat Belgian version doesn’t sound right. Never heard.or seen that one.
Reminds me of the Rice Krispies onomatopoeic noises in different languages:
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_Krispies
Interesting that English is the only language where this isn’t alliterative.
While you are correct, I feel it’s important to point out how lately you’ve been missing your ‘outside enrichments’…
I love how sometimes language unites us and sometimes it makes us humorously question the sanity of anyone too different from us 😄
I had no idea that vowel progression (I A O/U) was so common in European languages. Interesting!
Polish: “Under the dog weather”
That Belgian version doesn’t sound right. Never heard.or seen that one.