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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So that's funny, but you know what I seriously find to be very strange? How different the onomatopoeias for a dog's bark (well, any common animals sound) are in different languages. Here are the ones I know from experience, done kinda phonetically in English: American English: woof woof Brazilian Portuguese: ow ow (au au) Farsi: hop hop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget Ruff Ruff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Right! I was just doing it out of memory, but there's many other weird ones. I was looking this up many years ago after an Iranian friend told me it's hop hop there. I remember that for dog, rooster, and I think maybe also pigs and cows, there was wide variation across the world. But for cats, meow was really consistent across most languages. I might be wrong, it's been a while.