Bonus points if there’s a known onomatopoeia to describe the sound.
stoy ( @stoy@lemmy.zip ) 51•3 months ago“Myrornas krig”
“The war of the ants”
Lux ( @Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 9•3 months agoThis goes so fucking hard
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.
Yrt ( @Yrt@feddit.de ) 26•3 months agoSchneesturm (snow storm) or Ameisenkrieg (ant war) in German.
Numhold ( @Numhold@feddit.de ) 9•3 months agoWe always called it Ameisenfußball (ant soccer).
athos77 ( @athos77@kbin.social ) 17•3 months agoSnow or static. It’s cosmic microwave background radiation - the remnants of the big bang.
troed ( @troed@fedia.io ) 14•3 months ago“the war of the ants” (myrornas krig)
/Sweden
marc ( @marc@feddit.de ) 9•3 months agoKnow the term ‘Ants Soccer’, quite similar (Germany)
DozensOfDonner ( @DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz ) 4•3 months agoAmeisen Fußball? Never heard of that, super cool
jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) 13•3 months agoIn Germany it’s called “Weißes Rauschen” (so akin to white noise, white rustling / murmuring?). It seems to be both about the sound (rauschen) and the visuals (weiß).
Jajcus ( @Jajcus@kbin.social ) 12•3 months agoIn Poland it was „śnieży” (snowing).
intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 4•3 months agoHow’s that pronounced? Sorry for coming achoo with too many cultural questions
Jajcus ( @Jajcus@kbin.social ) 3•3 months agoI am not even able to write it phonetically in English. Ask Google Translate - its pronunciation is close-enough.
In IPA it is: /ɕɲɛʑɨ/
Jajcus ( @Jajcus@kbin.social ) 2•3 months ago…and if you are interested in the sound of static rather than the image, then the Polish word is: „szumi”. This can be approximated in English as: ‘shoomy’. The ‘sz’ sound does sound like static.
The funny thing is that our ‘sz’ (in „szumi”) and ‘ś’ (in „śnieży”) usually sound exactly the same to English or French speakers, while for us they are quite distinct sounds.
bobslaede ( @bobslaede@feddit.dk ) 12•3 months agoFlimmer
That’s cool. Something like “flickering”, I would guess?
bobslaede ( @bobslaede@feddit.dk ) 8•3 months agoYeah, pretty much. It’s danish btw 🙂
Shdwdrgn ( @Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ) English11•3 months agoBack in the days when we all had antennas and cable hadn’t been born yet, the static stations were a great thing to watch if there might be a tornado in your area. Apparently if one formed, it would significantly change the look of the snow on the TV and give you a warning to quickly head to the basement. I never actually saw it happen, but there were a couple times we had local warnings and my parents plopped me down to keep an eye on the TV.
moreeni ( @moreeni@lemm.ee ) 9•3 months agoIn Ukraine we say that “the image/display is snowing” (зображення/екран сніжить)
pietervdvn ( @pietervdvn@lemmy.ml ) 8•3 months agoIn Chiba city, it is described as “The sky above the port”
ginerel ( @ginerel@kbin.social ) 8•3 months agofleas
Ah, I can see that! A stormcloud full of fleas would be extra scary.
ginerel ( @ginerel@kbin.social ) 2•3 months agoSomething like that. I always heard it from my parents and grandparents that “it’s with fleas” or “you can see with fleas” when that happened. I never knew what was the link between those, but it sounds funny all the time, lol.
NotJustForMe ( @NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml ) 8•3 months agoDreh die Antenne nach links, ich krieg nur rauschen hier unten.
It would be white noise, “weißes rauschen”, but nobody ever said the “white” part.
antonim ( @antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 7•3 months agoIn Croatia, we call(ed) it ‘snow’ (snijeg).
kingthrillgore ( @KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ) 6•3 months agojust “static” in the states in the 1990s. I swear to god, sometimes I could see something in it. Could have been psychosomatic.
Syn_Attck ( @Syn_Attck@lemmy.today ) 1•3 months agoSometimes there was channel interference or something for sure. I know this because sometimes I would stay up late at night to try to see boobies. I don’t remember the reason or channel or anything, maybe it was on an adult channel and it mostly wouldn’t come through because it wasn’t being paid for? Back when you othersise had to find boobies in the woods on paper, or had a friend with a single father who worked a lot.
The world was a lot more simple back then. I can’t imagine the stress of being a kid today.