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[Ares Land]

Funny how that idiom works in at least three languages!

(It exists in German too, right?)

[Starbeam]

It's raining quite intensely, and the sun is shining quite brightly.

The devil is beating his wife.

Who? Beating his what?

[Raphael]

To be honest, this is the first time I hear that idiom.

[Rounin Ryuuji]

I've heard it before, but, thinking it was silly, I've never used it.

[linguistcat]

I prefer calling it a fox's wedding but that came from Japanese and possibly more generally East Asia. Before that I didn't have a term for the phenomenon.

[bradrn]

In South Africa it’s called a ‘monkey’s wedding’.

[Moose-tache]

Wikipedia says "trickster" animals getting married is a common theme. The fox's wedding, for example, is also found across eastern India. But western India and Pakistan prefer jackal's wedding. Other highlights include: the wedding of two ghosts, and the rich and poor are getting married.

[Creyeditor]

In Indonesian I heard 'hujan orang mati', dead people's rain, which Wikipedia also mentions with qualifications.

I think my grandmother uses a Low German or Missingsch version of 'The devil is making pancakes'.

[Ryusenshi]

To be honest, this is the first time I hear that idiom.

Same.

[Linguoboy]

As a child, I found it an odd expression. I was like, “He’s the Devil. Shouldn’t he be beating his wife all the time?”

A Barbadian friend used to variation “The Devil’s beating his wife with the coucou stick.”

[Travis B.]

Somehow I've never heard any idiom at all for this situation.

[Raphael]

Somehow I've never heard any idiom at all for this situation.

Neither have I.

[Ares Land]

I think of it as the kind of rural folk sayings you don't hear much these days. (I'm sort of actively looking for them)

I heard that 'the Devil' is really Jupiter. Probably too good of an explanation to be true, but we do find odd pagan survivals from time to time.

(I learned recently that the French word lutin 'pixie' derives from Neptunus. One remaining connection is that lutins were associated with stables and horses, and in rural Gaul Neptune was mostly important as a horse god.)

[malloc]

Decades ago when I was very young, my neurologist diagnosed with me with autism, or Aspergers syndrome more specifically. However, the paperwork associated with this diagnosis has long since disappeared and the neurologist himself retired years ago. Currently my symptoms seem quite mild compared to what we normally associate with autism. I work at an ordinary job and rent my own apartment. All that makes me wonder whether it makes sense to consider myself autistic. Technically I could, yet it feels dishonest considering I lack physical confirmation of an official diagnosis or the same hardships as most autistic people.

[Travis B.]

Not having paperwork doesn't mean anything. And not all ASD people aren't able to work or live on their own by any means. So just because you don't have some paperwork from ages ago and you are able to work and live independently doesn't mean anything.

[Raholeun]

Has anybody here every used an online language tutor to learn a language? A friend suggested verbling, but it is not clear to me if doing the online/zoom-thing will work for me. I can imagine it is hard to stay disciplined without having any real contact.

Then again, it seems there are only limited options for me to learn Georgian where I'm at..

[MacAnDàil]

Decades ago when I was very young, my neurologist diagnosed with me with autism, or Aspergers syndrome more specifically. However, the paperwork associated with this diagnosis has long since disappeared and the neurologist himself retired years ago. Currently my symptoms seem quite mild compared to what we normally associate with autism. I work at an ordinary job and rent my own apartment. All that makes me wonder whether it makes sense to consider myself autistic. Technically I could, yet it feels dishonest considering I lack physical confirmation of an official diagnosis or the same hardships as most autistic people.

I don't even remember when I got diagnosed dyspraxic but it doesn't stop me saying it. And it doesn't stop me living my life regardless.

If you really want to check, you could maybe book an appointment with another neurologist or see if the old neurologist still has the paperwork.

[Ares Land]

New posters have appeared on my street. One suggests: 'Replace Macron with small clementine peels', another: 'replace Marine Le Pen with polenta', yet another: 'Replace capitalism with a good nap.'
(Part of the joke is that it plays on the 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory.)

These are probably the more inspiring politcal slogans I've seen in a long time.

[alice]

New posters have appeared on my street. One suggests: 'Replace Macron with small clementine peels'

Obvious linguistic corollary: "Remplacez Macron par le circonflèxe".

[Ares Land]

New posters have appeared on my street. One suggests: 'Replace Macron with small clementine peels'

Obvious linguistic corollary: "Remplacez Macron par le circonflèxe".

The existence of Emmanuel Macron implies the existence of Emmanuel Brève.