Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer

Re:Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer by codeulike on Saturday October 17, 2026 @06:30PM (#50135784)

I like the simulation. They do 'dabbling' and 'picking insects' but they dont ever seem to do 'ducking' (tail up, head underwater).

Ducks are named after 'ducking' ... or possibly, 'ducking' is named after Ducks.

edit: also please remove hard ceiling of 120 peas. I want to throw more peas

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Re:Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer by andai on Sunday October 18, 2026 @08:53AM (#50140677)

Duik means "dive" in Dutch, never noticed that similarity before. Maybe Ducking and Duiken both come from the bird?

https://www.etymonline.com/word/duck#etymonline_v_15956

Unrelated but amusing to me: Patak is duck in Croatian, while Batak is "bird" in Sanskrit (but means chicken leg in Croatian).

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Re:Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer by ErroneousBosh on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:23AM (#50141874)

Also "dook" in Scots.

Another one, in Scots you hear the word "stoor" used for dust, and "sook" for suck. And guess what, in Dutch, they call it a "stoorzuiger" pronounced like "stoor sooker"... :-D

If you speak Scots but you're in Holland or Germany and you want to order more beer, you just say "mair beer!" and it works out the same in the other two languages. This of course works if you speak German or Dutch, and you're in Scotland.

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Re:Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer by SurfingAlpaca on Thursday October 22, 2026 @05:17AM (#50193089)

Batak is duck in Hindi. The word comes from Persian. In Sanskrit the word for bird is pakshi

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