I like croak way better as the English representation.
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
Brekekekèx-koàx-koáx
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”.
Kero Kero
FROPPY!
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.
COQUI - Spanish
Interesting, I say CROAC. Probably there’s a lot of geographical variation.
Kum Kum
OP OP
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?”
Still a fantastically catchy song
(POLISH)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
You’re my butterfly
Sugar, baby
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.
As seen with Japanese. I don’t speak the language but I’m pretty sure they write it differently.
ケロケロ
Yeah. It sounds correct but the spelling is not known to me
I just realised Finnish doesn’t have an onomatopoetic frog sound 🤔
I’m trying to think about the French one and nothing comes to mind either…
I dont know why hungarian is there but 💯🇭🇺HUNGARY MENTIONED🇭🇺💯 /s. Also yes we do say brek/brekk or brekeke
Brekeke…
Keke…
Kek…
Bojler elado!
Gondolom nem lopott, vadi új?
mu mu (toki pona).
All animals say “mu” in Toki Pona btw.
They’re justified and they’re ancient!
We need a version of “What does the Fox Say” with every animal sound replaced with ‘mu’.
Does this correlate to the sounds that the different species of frogs in those regions make?