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Posted: **Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:25 pm**

Funny how that idiom works in at least three languages!

(It exists in German too, right?)

Posted: **Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:30 pm**

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:58 am
Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Jun 18, 2021 9:56 am It's raining quite intensely, and the sun is shining quite brightly.
The devil is beating his wife.

Who? Beating his what?

Posted: **Sun Jun 20, 2021 1:15 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Jun 20, 2021 1:44 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Jun 20, 2021 1:56 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:17 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon Jun 21, 2021 12:23 am**

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.

Posted: **Mon Jun 21, 2021 1:52 am**

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'.

Posted: **Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:44 am**

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 1:15 pm To be honest, this is the first time I hear that idiom.

Same.

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:37 am**

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.”

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:01 am**

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

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:17 am**

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:01 am Somehow I've never heard any idiom at all for this situation.

Neither have I.

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:41 am**

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.)

Posted: **Thu Jun 24, 2021 4:50 pm**

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.

Posted: **Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:11 pm**

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.

Posted: **Fri Jun 25, 2021 4:29 am**

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..

Posted: **Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:40 am**

malloc wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 4:50 pm 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.

Posted: **Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:41 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Jun 26, 2021 10:25 am**

Ares Land wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:41 pm New posters have appeared on my street. One suggests: 'Replace Macron with small clementine peels'

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

Posted: **Sun Jun 27, 2021 1:50 am**

alice wrote: ↑Sat Jun 26, 2021 10:25 am
Ares Land wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:41 pm 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.

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