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| The Blaz Senior Member Canada theblazblog.blogspotRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5600 days ago 120 posts - 176 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Swahili, French, Sign Language, Esperanto | Message 9 of 19 04 April 2010 at 12:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Off topic, but this reminds me of one of my favourite jokes from Arrested Development: that no one in the family gets that chickens make a `bok bok bok' sound in English.
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| oz-hestekræfte Senior Member Australia Joined 5678 days ago 103 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Danish | Message 10 of 19 04 April 2010 at 5:45am | IP Logged | ||
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I remember playing soccer in primary school and someone calling out "One One" refering to the score. The Japanese teacher happened to be walking past and thought it would be a funny joke to say "nya nya".
In Japanese wan wan = woof woof nya nya = meow On another note I have found my new monolingual Danish dictionary great because it has defenitions for all the Danish noises or udråbsord. (Interjections, or hyper-literally: outyellwords 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lynxrunner Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States crittercryptics.com Joined 5922 days ago 361 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Swedish, Haitian Creole | Message 11 of 19 04 April 2010 at 6:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Here are some onomatopoeia for the cat meowing sound. If you'll notice, they are all
very close together, featuring a nasal consonant close to the front of the mouth, an 'a' sound, and sometimes ending with 'u'/'o'. I guess cats really do go 'miao'. ;) http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catsmeow.html Afrikaans :miaau Albanian: mjau Arabic (Algeria): miaou miaou Bengali: meu-meu Catalan: meu, meu Chinese (Mandarin): miao miao Croatian: mijau Danish: mjav Dutch: miauw English: meow Estonian: näu Finnish: miau, kurnau French: miaou German: miau Greek: niaou Hebrew: miyau Hindi: mya:u, mya:u: Hungarian: miau Icelandic: mjá Indonesian: ngeong Italian: miao Japanese: nyaa Korean:(n)ya-ong Norwegian: mjau Polish: miau Portuguese: miau Russian:myau Spanish: miau Swedish: mjau Thai: meow meow (with a high tone) Turkish: miyauv, miyauv Ukrainian: myau The sound for dogs barking is much more irregular... English: bow wow/ruff ruff Spanish: jau jau Russian: gav gav And that's just a few Indo-European languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ember Triglot Groupie CyprusRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5403 days ago 63 posts - 101 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, German Studies: Spanish, French, Greek, Polish | Message 12 of 19 04 April 2010 at 10:52am | IP Logged | ||
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We are at near-war with my husband when it comes to animal sounds (it gets kind of important when you have kids ;) In Russian, a frog says "qua-qua", while the duck says "krya-krya", and in English - "rebit-rebit" and "quak-quak" respectively.
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| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5351 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese | Message 13 of 19 04 April 2010 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Some Swedish sounds:
Stalling sound - Eh (Long e as in bed) Eww - Usch Oops - Oj (or oj då) Huh? - Va? (although this is more like a word than a sound) Oink oink - Nöff nöff Baa - Mä Rebbit - Kväk Moo - Mu Meow - Mjau (same sound) Woof woof - Voff voff Can't think of any more :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5422 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 14 of 19 05 April 2010 at 5:48am | IP Logged | ||
I also have tried to define like when used in that manner, and what (if anything) it's there for. Can anyone enlighten me? Why the hell do we do this? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5464 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 15 of 19 05 April 2010 at 6:02am | IP Logged | ||
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I love the Japanese expression of surprise "U-hyoo!" It always makes me laugh.
And of course there is the ubiquitous "Heeeeeee" to indicate that you are hearing something for the first time which is quite interesting and unexpected. This noise gave rise to a TV programme that was hugely popular for a while, where a celebrity panel were told silly pieces of trivia and then rated them using a number of "Heeee's" to show how interesting they found them. I think the programme was called "The fountain of useless knowledge" or something like that. To an English speaker's ears this noise sounds so silly that it's kind of embarrassing to reproduce it at first. Now I use it all the time though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 16 of 19 05 April 2010 at 11:47am | IP Logged | ||
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People even sneeze differently in different languages. In English it's "achoo", in French it's "atchoum", in Spanish it's "achís", in Portuguese it's "atchim", in Italian it's "eccì", in Polish it's "apsik", in Russian it's "апчхи" (apčkhi), in Mandarin it's "啊嚏" (atì) and in Japanese it's "ハクション" (hakushon).
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