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Bonus points if there's a known onomatopoeia to describe the sound.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

We called it static.

[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What prompted this question is some Japanese TV service ended this past weekend for a relative and the word to describe the static noise was "sand storm".

Thought it might be interesting to hear what it's called elsewhere.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's cool. Something like "flickering", I would guess?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nothing more fancy in Boston than "snow".

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah that's a common one, I wonder if it would seen as more or less commonly like that depending on how cold the local climate is.

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