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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4829 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 1 of 10 29 August 2012 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
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The Guardian is having a bit of fun with "The Silly Season".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/28/pass-notes-the-s illy-season just in case: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/28/pass-notes-the-s illy-season So according to The Grauniad (affectionate name given to it on account of its many typographical errors), we have: EN: The Silly Season NL: komkommertijd (cucumber time) DE: Sommerloch (summer hole) Does(do) your country's language(s) have a name for this "season" or does your culture even recognise it? (it's when everyone's on holiday, and there is nothing much happening, so newspaper reporters feel it incumbent on them to make up or inflate stories for our (or their own) entertainment). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2 of 10 29 August 2012 at 8:03pm | IP Logged |
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My country has a name for it, and yeah, it's called komkommertijd. Maybe it's because
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| Majka Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic kofoholici.wordpress Joined 4658 days ago 307 posts - 755 votes Speaks: Czech*, German, English Studies: French Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 10 29 August 2012 at 8:04pm | IP Logged |
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Czech - okurková sezóna (cucumber season, same as NL)
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5454 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 4 of 10 29 August 2012 at 8:19pm | IP Logged |
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Norwegian: agurktid (cucumber time).
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 5 of 10 29 August 2012 at 10:07pm | IP Logged |
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Besides "Sommerloch", there's also "Sauregurkenzeit" (sour cucumber time) in German.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5848 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 10 03 September 2012 at 8:02am | IP Logged |
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In Esperanto "The Silly Season" is called "malvigla sezono".
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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 7 of 10 03 September 2012 at 11:15am | IP Logged |
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In Spanish, we don't usually refer to the season itself, but to the kind of stories that get published then: "serpientes de verano" (lit. summer snakes, a possible reference to Nessie-like cryptozoa appearances being more frequent during the silly season).
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5968 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 10 03 September 2012 at 4:40pm | IP Logged |
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This is not an exact match, but this thread reminds me of the expression "dog days" which I did not know was so old or culturally widespread until I looked it up:
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