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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

brakka out of placers!?!?!?!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

개굴개굴 개구리 노래를 한다

아들 손자 며느리 다아 모여서

밤새도록 하여도 듣는 이 없네

듣는사람 없어도 날이 밝도록

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Quero-quero (kerokero), but in Brazil

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As usual, the Germans are fucking wrong. That's what ducks sound like dumb asses!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's just differently written but the sound is correct

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

How frogs sound in french -

"Bonjour"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I like croak way better as the English representation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

croak is the term for the sound, ribbit is the onomatopeia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oddly enough croak is likely also onomatopoeia (imitative)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Brekekekèx-koàx-koáx

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month 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".

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is that pronounced? wow-wow-rohn?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Correct

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

A beautiful word we learned from the first nations, probably the Wendat.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Kero Kero

FROPPY!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

COQUI - Spanish

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting, I say CROAC. Probably there's a lot of geographical variation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That’s the name of a frog common to Puerto Rico, it makes a sound just like it’s name

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kum Kum

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

If I must

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just realised Finnish doesn't have an onomatopoetic frog sound 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm trying to think about the French one and nothing comes to mind either...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does this correlate to the sounds that the different species of frogs in those regions make?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Hmm I thought we all know frogs go La De Da De Da?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I dont know why hungarian is there but 💯🇭🇺HUNGARY MENTIONED🇭🇺💯 /s. Also yes we do say brek/brekk or brekeke

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Brekeke....

Keke....

Kek.....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bojler elado!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Gondolom nem lopott, vadi új?

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