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- boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish1 day
Pours as if from a broomhandle
Estonian. No, it doesn’t make sense here either.
- Bysmuth@lemmy.zipEnglish2 days
Just adding one more, in spanish it’s raining from jugs (“cántaro”, more like an amphora, never used this old word outside of this expression)
I personally don’t use this expression anymore. My family and I now only say something my brother came up with because we find it hilarious: it’s a rain so hard it’s like two rains
2 days“It’s Raining Men” and “Let The Bodies Hit The Floor” are actually one song
- 2 days
“It’s raining twines/threads/strings” also works, but that’s reserved for somewhat strong, sustained rain. “Buckets” is obviously the escalation of that.
- uniquethrowagay@feddit.orgEnglish1 day
What would “it’s raining threads” be on German? I’m not familiar with that term
- uniquethrowagay@feddit.orgEnglish20 hours
Okay I’ve lived in Germany all my life and never heard that. Is it a regional expression?
- Fontasia@feddit.nlEnglish2 days
Is there something about troll squirting that only the Norwegians know about?
- apex32@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
Reminds 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!- 5765313496@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
I had no idea that vowel progression (I A O/U) was so common in European languages. Interesting!
- protist@retrofed.comEnglish2 days
Interesting that English is the only language where this isn’t alliterative.
- 2 days
I think the list is kind of intentionally misleading to provide that assumption.
The non-English ones are all translations of whatever that language uses as its onomatopoeia that represents any quick succession of sounds.
In English, Snap Crackle Pop is most known as the slogan of Rice Krispies cereal. The saying was not common speech in English until 1932, when the then-5-year-old brand used the phrase in radio jingles for the first time.
The universal English equivalent to any of those would probably be something more like “bang bang bang”. Or in British English they say “bish bash bosh” which would be a true direct translation. In American English we dropped that saying, so our closest equivalent would probably be “wham, bam, thank you ma’am”
- captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish19 hours
Are people fucking this cereal or do we have wildly different interpretations as to what “wham, bam, thank you ma’am” means?
- Foreigner@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
In France we have a few more:
Il pleut des cordes (It’s raining ropes) Il pleut à sceau (It’s raining buckets) Il tombe des hallebardes (it’s raining halberds)
I’m also quite partial to “on s’est fait saucer”, literally “we got sauced”, which refers to getting soaked in the rain.
- psycotica0@lemmy.caEnglish2 days
Do French people generally know what a Halberd is? Because I think at least in Canada only RPG nerds and medieval history nerds have ever heard that word before…
- TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish2 days
The French do know how to decapitate heads. Usually they use a guillotine, but I guess they also know a halbard for when the guillotine is out of order.
