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Frage: | flippen | |
Wenn man einen flachen Stein über das Wasser flippt, wie heißt das auf Englisch? Danke! |
Antwort: | Skimmimg stones or playing ducks and drakes - | #529597 |
I don't know how widespread ducks and drakes is, but that's what we called it when I was a lass. |
Antwort: | I don't think it's very widespread | #529598 |
I've heard of skimming stones, but not of playing ducks and drakes. |
Antwort: | #529599 | |
AE would be skipping stones, although we'd understand skimming stones too. But I wouldn't have known what Ducks and drakes was if I hadn't seen it from Joanne above. So, as always, depends on your audience! |
Antwort: | cool, danke Joanne! | #529600 |
Antwort: | skimming (skipping) stones also ... danke Leute | #529602 |
Antwort: | Ducks and drakes does seem to be more widely known than I first feared - | #529605 |
Google: "ducks and drakes" stones This site http://www.yeeha.net/nassa/a1.html (the wonderfully named NASSA) says "In England, stone skipping is known as, 'ducks and drakes', and nobody seems to know exactly why. (I have it traced to the 12th century in England, so far.)" But if you want to be understood, stick to skimming (or skipping) stones :-)) |
Antwort: | Elton and Bernie | #529613 |
I remember when rock was young Me and Suzie had so much fun holding hands and skimming stones Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own |
Antwort: | 'Ducks and drakes' | #529651 |
is the name my parents called it when I was a boy. I believe the name is due to the succession of small splashes left by a well skimmed stone across the surface of the water. This resembles the track of a duck paddling its feet across the water when it takes off. |
Antwort: | AE skip rocks | #529656 |
"Stone", as far as my usage goes, is a word I usually use to refer to construction material. |
Chat: | Well. for us 'stone' and 'rock' | #529675 |
have the same meaning as regards material, but with two differences: (a) that a 'rock' is bigger, generally meaning any stone too big to be handled easily, and (b) that 'stone' is not used for rock which is (or is part of) a natural feature such as a mountain or cliff. Thus 'Rock of Gibraltar' and 'rock climbimg'. However, 'stone' is also used for large pieces of rock which could not normally be lifted by an individual, as in Stone of Scone, and the stones of Stonehenge, and 'standing stones' generally. This English use of 'stone' goes back to the German 'Stein', which also includes the modern British meaning of 'rock', as in 'Du kennst mich wohl, von hohem Stein / schaut still mein Schloss tief in den Rhein'. Also 'rock' implies that the material is rough and unworked, while a 'stone' may or may not be. Hence it seems wrong to speak of skimming rocks, because only a flat, smooth and fairly regular piece would do. Also we speak of 'precious stones', not 'precious rocks'. Also may I ask, what do Americans say for 'stoning'? In the Bible and in modern Iran people are stoned to death. 'Rocking'? 'Rocked to death'? |
Chat: | "Why don't we go behind a rock and get a little boulder?" ;-) | #529695 |
Antwort: | you was a lass in the 12th century? that's a record, and i don't mean a hit record | #529747 |
but it could be i remember when i was just a lass up in scotland down by the lakes how we hurled flat rocks -- rocks that would pass over the water as ducks and drakes.... it was a hit in eleven -- and fifty seven what they called the 12th century you threw the stones and i was in heaven ducks and drakes meant the world to me... etc |
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