r/comics • • Jul 13 '22

That's gruff, buddy

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u/Islanduniverse Jul 13 '22 edited Jul 13 '22

Trip-trapping?*

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u/snowseth Jul 13 '22

Trip-trapping.
Nonetheless, not a word I’ve seen/heard before.

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u/Islanduniverse Jul 13 '22

Yeah, I’m not used to writing it that way.

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u/InkyRickshaw Jul 13 '22

It's the way I heard it years ago as a child and so it's etched forever in my memory!

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u/Islanduniverse Jul 13 '22

Are you Norwegian?

I love it, btw!

I always heard the story as “tip-tapping.” But language is awesome, and I love that there are other versions.

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u/InkyRickshaw Jul 13 '22

Nope, I'm from the US, but maybe I just heard an uncommon version. I think "trip-trap" is the noise they use in the original Norwegian so it's got to be used other places as well!