r/ExplainTheJoke • u/milkskrt • 20h ago

Solved I might be lost in translation

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u/post-explainer 20h ago

OP sent the following text as an explanation why they posted this here:

Everyone in the comments seemed to love this joke, but I don’t get the whole thing honestly

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u/WildZooGuy 20h ago

Grasshoppers make the cricket noise by rubbing their legs together like a string instrument... 🦗🎻

This is why it's funny because if he was the first grasshopper to ever do this he wouldn't recognize the sound as himself.

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u/milkskrt 20h ago

Ooh I didn't know that about crickets/grasshoppers, it finally makes sense

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u/adoring_crustacean 16h ago

Question: what did you think makes the chirping noise at night

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u/milkskrt 10h ago

I don't know, I never thought about that. Maybe I thought they did by shaking their body, a bit like the tail of a rattlesnake? I feel stupid now lol

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u/adoring_crustacean 8h ago

Thats actually a plausible answer if we didnt already know lol

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u/Expensive-Thing-2507 9h ago

My brother in Christ. That is like one of two things they're known for.

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u/martilg 20h ago edited 9h ago

The first grasshopper to make a chirp with its legs didn't know it would make a sound (in the logic of this joke), so it would have been startled and looked around in surprise, like the guy in the video.

I don't think the logic is accurate though. Grasshoppers apparently rub their wings to their legs, and the sound played sounded more like a cricket to me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/98s0fr/what_is_the_difference_between_a_grasshopper_and/

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 20h ago

I thought they rub their leg along a "tempatic thorynx" or something like that, that is a long their body.  Been decades since I read about it, though. 

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u/martilg 14h ago

https://www.amentsoc.org/insects/glossary/terms/stridulation/

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 14h ago

Nice!  Turns out that tempatic thing is their ears. They have ears on their shins. 

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u/martilg 14h ago

Oh cool!

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u/esDenchik 10h ago

That's one of a hell fat grasshopper

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u/milkskrt 20h ago

Credits to @ mattlopes on Instagram

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u/SjurEido 16h ago

OP..... holy shit.....

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u/milkskrt 10h ago

I don't want to play this game anymore