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"The Silly Season" (The Guardian)

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 Message 1 of 10
29 August 2012 at 7:53pm | IP Logged 
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).


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29 August 2012 at 8:03pm | IP Logged 
My country has a name for it, and yeah, it's called komkommertijd. Maybe it's because
that's all we put in our salads...
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29 August 2012 at 8:04pm | IP Logged 
Czech - okurková sezóna (cucumber season, same as NL)
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29 August 2012 at 8:19pm | IP Logged 
Norwegian: agurktid (cucumber time).
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29 August 2012 at 10:07pm | IP Logged 
Besides "Sommerloch", there's also "Sauregurkenzeit" (sour cucumber time) in German.
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03 September 2012 at 8:02am | IP Logged 
In Esperanto "The Silly Season" is called "malvigla sezono".

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03 September 2012 at 11:15am | IP Logged 
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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03 September 2012 at 4:40pm | IP Logged 
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:

Dog Days


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