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Started by HVC, August 03, 2016, 05:50:46 PM

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HVC

August 03, 2016, 05:50:46 PM
Came across this chart of what different languages think animals sound like. The French chicken is my favourite.

http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/animal.html
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Sheilbh

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August 03, 2016, 06:00:58 PM
Bird (small): chip.
Bird (medium): chip.
Bird (large): chip (loudly).
Many birds: chip chip.

Italian is such a beautiful, complex language.
Let's bomb Russia!

CountDeMoney

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August 03, 2016, 06:03:48 PM
Those are some pretty fucked up See n' Says. 

THE COW SAYS MAU MAU
I SAY WHAT THE FUCK

DGuller

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August 03, 2016, 07:47:13 PM
I could never understand English-speaking pigs.  Where the hell does that "oink" come from anyway?  Has anyone ever heard a pig say "oink", or anything resembling that?

Admiral Yi

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August 03, 2016, 08:04:19 PM
Quote from: DGuller on August 03, 2016, 07:47:13 PM
I could never understand English-speaking pigs.  Where the hell does that "oink" come from anyway?  Has anyone ever heard a pig say "oink", or anything resembling that?

Sure.  :huh:

DGuller

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August 03, 2016, 08:09:18 PM
Can pigs even pronounce the k sound?

HVC

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August 03, 2016, 08:21:41 PM
Quote from: DGuller on August 03, 2016, 08:09:18 PM
Can pigs even pronounce the k sound?
inhale through your nose while saying oink. Seriously do it, you'll sound like a pig :lol:
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Admiral Yi

#7
August 03, 2016, 08:26:43 PM
Any sound pronounced in the back of the throat is going to be difficult to transliterate.  How would you write a snore for example?  Most cartoons write "ZZZZZ" but that's not really close.

DGuller

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August 03, 2016, 08:35:55 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 03, 2016, 08:26:43 PM
Any sound pronounced in the back of the throat is going to be difficult to transliterate.  How would you write a snore for example?  Most cartoons write "ZZZZZ" but that's not really close.
In Russian it's hraaaaap-piiiiisch.

Razgovory

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August 03, 2016, 09:12:42 PM
Quote from: DGuller on August 03, 2016, 07:47:13 PM
I could never understand English-speaking pigs.  Where the hell does that "oink" come from anyway?  Has anyone ever heard a pig say "oink", or anything resembling that?

How many pigs have you known?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

The Brain

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August 04, 2016, 01:01:38 AM
In what sense?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

garbon

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August 04, 2016, 02:14:46 AM
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Martinus

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August 04, 2016, 02:23:35 AM
Quote from: DGuller on August 03, 2016, 07:47:13 PM
I could never understand English-speaking pigs.  Where the hell does that "oink" come from anyway?  Has anyone ever heard a pig say "oink", or anything resembling that?

In porn.

Josquius

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August 04, 2016, 02:48:08 AM
Quote from: DGuller on August 03, 2016, 07:47:13 PM
I could never understand English-speaking pigs.  Where the hell does that "oink" come from anyway?  Has anyone ever heard a pig say "oink", or anything resembling that?

How do you spell the grunting sound they more normally make?
In English that is. No Dutch Gs or french anything allowed.

You can somewhat hear the oink with smaller pigs.
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