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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

In China we call it snow and describe the sound using the exact onomatopoeia as rain

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

just "static" in the states in the 1990s. I swear to god, sometimes I could see something in it. Could have been psychosomatic.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Snow rain

... and sound was just called "hiss" or "white noise"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Salt and pepper fight!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Śnieg: snow

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

برفک

barfak

literally "little snow"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Makes it sound cute. Instead of watching the news, I'll look at a little snow.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

It's "neige" which means "snow" in french

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

It's just static.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Salt and pepper fight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Snow" in Norway. Alternatively "Snowball fight"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] arthur 4 points 8 months ago

Or "chuviscado", that could mean light rain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

turkish: "karıncalanmış"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ah, Cosmic background radiation. AKA static. Sounds like: ksshhhh Comedy name: snowstorm in the arctic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What caused this? Shit used to terrify me as a kid

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Snowfall in finnish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

In québécois French, we would call it "neige" or "statique". Snow or static.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
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