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Onomatopoeic non-niceness



Yesterday I started working on onomatopoeia for animal
sounds with the aid of a web site designed by someone
over on the ENFP list.  They have gathered the sounds
that familiar creatures "make" in numerous languages
from Afrikaans to Vietnamese at
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/animals.html
and organized them both by language and by animal.  As
soon as I found the sound birds make (piu-piu
tuid-tuid) I realized that this is also the sound of
Florentines talking.  That made me think, what other
languages were lurking out there among the animal
sounds?

Animal  sound              foreign language
bird    piu-piu tuid-tuid  Florentine
cat     miau-miau          French (miau-miau-friau)
 angry cat  fid-fid-friau
duck    guad-guad          Arabic (guad-guad
vizz-vizz)
bee     vizz/vzz
fly     tizz/tzz
donkey  ii-hau             English
cow     mbuu
crow    crau-crau          Greek
sheep   ba-a-a
goat    me-e-e
snake   siss/sss
dog     bau-bau/hav-hav    Turkish (bau-bau hav-hav)
pig     grang-grang        

Just because your languge has not been insulted in
this post doesn't mean uls Carrajus don't associate
your speech with some animal noise.  It only means
that I haven't learnd in what way they disparage you. 
At least I know they think *I* sound like a donkey. 
Sheesh!  What friendly people.

Adam