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15 Jun 99 - 03:38 PM (#86919) Subject: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Margo Here's the definition: on·o·mat·o·poe·ia (¼n"…-m²t"…-p"…, -mä"t…-) n. The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. I love language and am especially appreciative of colorful descriptions. Onomatopoeias are great, and I was wondering what your favorites are, in any language! There are so many: splash, flop, bark, klunk, and good old plop (that's what I call fresh cow stuff).......... Margarita |
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15 Jun 99 - 03:43 PM (#86921) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Rick Fielding Ooomph! |
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15 Jun 99 - 03:47 PM (#86923) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Bert When I was in Iran they used to sell barbecued 'Donbalon' which are sheep's balls. I said to my boss that it was onomatopoeic because sheep don't wear Y fronts (I could imagine these sheep walking around makind the noise 'donbalon-balon-balon'). But by the time I had explained onomatopoeia the point was lost. Bert. (Sorry) |
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15 Jun 99 - 03:50 PM (#86927) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Margo Bert, that's too much. What do you mean by a Y front? Margarita |
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15 Jun 99 - 03:53 PM (#86930) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: danl funny you should mention this. im meant to be at this very moment writing up some poetry notes and although A.E.Housman is not known for his onomatopoeias the other poet we are studying Elizabeth Jennings uses them a lot. but houseman is all i have with me at the moment, so what about 'the streets sound to the soldiers' tread,'. though thats probably more the rhythem and illiteration isnt it... oh never mind. ivy b* |
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15 Jun 99 - 04:03 PM (#86939) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Margo tread, tromp, tramp, all somewhat onomatopoetic, don't you think?
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15 Jun 99 - 04:19 PM (#86944) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: MMario tintintabulation was always a favorite flush, whoosh, whiz,meow, woof, tweet,quack MMario |
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15 Jun 99 - 04:30 PM (#86950) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: katlaughing My engineer husband used to use the term "titravate" (sp?) I always thought it sounded like something he would do with certain of my body parts in bed! |
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15 Jun 99 - 04:32 PM (#86952) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Bert Y fronts are Jockey shorts. Talking of onomatopoeia, did anyone play Fizz-Buzz when they were kids? Bert. Crunch! |
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15 Jun 99 - 04:39 PM (#86956) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Les B Hiss ! |
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15 Jun 99 - 05:16 PM (#86964) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: catspaw49 Bert--------the first one was enough...LMAO!!! Now your second post reminds me of the jacks type game you once tried to describe..........Y'all did some weird childhood games there Bert. catspaw |
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15 Jun 99 - 05:44 PM (#86978) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Bert Fizz-Buzz is a classroom game. You start counting around the class but if your number has a five in it either as a digit OR a factor you say Fizz instead of the number. The same with sevens only you say Buzz this time. So the first kid says 'one' Next kid says 'two' and it continues 3, 4, Fizz, 6, Buzz, 8, 9,Fizz-Fizz('cos 2 5s are 10), 11, 12, 13, Buzz-Buzz, Fizz-Fizz-Fizz, 16, Buzz, 18, 19 and so on. Bert. |
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15 Jun 99 - 05:54 PM (#86984) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: MichaelM Ivy, I wonder if your "soldier's tread" is an example of synecdoche i.e. a figure of speech where a part is made to represent the whole, e.g. "a pair of hands flying over the strings". The hands suggest the player. Michael |
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15 Jun 99 - 06:20 PM (#86992) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: The word "wolf" is probably onomatopoeic; choo-choo certainly is--as is one of the Japanese words for train: kishaa. --seed |
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15 Jun 99 - 08:05 PM (#87010) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: The Shambles There is a word I have only ever heard used in Shetland and it is used to discribe the sound a fuel can makes, when you pick it and shake it to see if it is empty. ... You give it a 'swittle'. |
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15 Jun 99 - 09:39 PM (#87017) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: campfire Bert, we played "Fizz-Buzz" - including once on a college (Easter Break) bus trip from Milwaukee, WI to Daytona Beach, FL - with beer provided. Somewhere around Tennessee there was probably more Whizzing than Fizzing, if you catch my drift, but lots of buzzes, anyway. campfire |
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16 Jun 99 - 02:11 AM (#87051) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Tom on Comfort That sounds like the Buzz we used to play in Chicago, except we used 7, multiples of 7, and numbers that added up to 7. In a circle, the order would change every time someone would come upon a Buzz number. And, of course, you would get pretty buzzed. |
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16 Jun 99 - 07:13 AM (#87090) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Neil Lowe zing (cousin to whizz, I think).
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16 Jun 99 - 07:20 AM (#87091) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: alison Hi, We played buzz in Belfast too...... I think we added ping for different multiples to make it more difficult. Slainte alison |
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16 Jun 99 - 07:47 AM (#87097) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: The_one_and_only_Dai I always thought 'pernickity' sounded like an over-attentive maiden aunt. |
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16 Jun 99 - 07:54 AM (#87098) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Steve Parkes Peng is German for bang, according to Monty Python, and a crêche is a car smash in Solihull (where Brummies talk posh, if you didn't know). That second example isn't strictly onomatopoeia (unless Volvos and Rovers make a different noise from Skodas and VWs!). Are there any more cross-lingual sounds out there? Steve Just remembered: miaou is French for miaow. |
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16 Jun 99 - 08:34 AM (#87105) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: catspaw49 I gotta' go with Billy Connelly's word for masturbation. It sounds like the cheap bedsprings in an army barracks or camp when someone is laying there whipping the bishop.......WANK, as in "having a wank"......very onomatopoetic. catspaw |
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16 Jun 99 - 08:55 AM (#87111) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: danl mmm...mummer would have to be my favorate. |
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16 Jun 99 - 08:58 AM (#87113) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: danl erm... i think i meant murmur... or is it murmmer..or murmer... oh god, i wish i could SPELL! damn damn damn |
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16 Jun 99 - 09:42 AM (#87120) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Bill in Alabama For onomatopoeic animal sounds, check: http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/animals.html Someday I hope to have the time to learn to make a blue clicky thing. |
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16 Jun 99 - 10:33 AM (#87138) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Peter T. This reminds me of a discussion I had in a schoolyard when I was 12 about whether tits were about the nipples on the breasts, or the whole breast. We decided that because of the sound, they had to be about the pointy part. It was a fine discussion, ranging far and wide over many related topics of interest, somewhat like Mudcat threads, and similarly fully occupied our attention. Yours, Peter T. |
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16 Jun 99 - 10:43 AM (#87143) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Roger the zimmer 'paw: & Howlin' Wolf "wang dang doodle"?? ;o) |
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16 Jun 99 - 11:32 AM (#87154) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: katlaughing PeterT: that reminds me of what we used to call the brassieres our mothers wore in the 50's. They had concentric stitching all the way out to the point, were fairly stiff cotton and really made the breasts stick straight up and out, so.....we called them "torpedo tit bras"! (Why, oh why, does everything take on that phallic look/connotation?) katlaughing |
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16 Jun 99 - 12:00 PM (#87166) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Llanfair In Germany, they call bras "bustenhalsters" Does that sound like onomatapaea? There is an interesting little book called "The Book of Liff", which contains some very creative descriptions. For example "NANTWICH The dampest thing in the fridge between two of the dryest things in the fridge....a popular late night snack" or DELAWARE..The hideous stuff on the shelves of a rented house. Hwyl, Bron. |
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16 Jun 99 - 12:26 PM (#87170) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Steve Parkes Oh, Katl, how can breasts be phallic?! I don't know enough Greek to tell you the right word (some other smartarse will, though!), but I happen to know that sine (as in trigonometry) comes from the Sanskrit word for "bosom"*. Now there's an intersting word: both with singular and plural forms, and a collective noun as well. Bustenhalter is one of those words that give German a bad name. I realy must learn the language one of these days. Why call something a "bra" when you can call it a, well, a "bust halter"? Why say "tank" when you can say "armoured warfare vehicle"? And what other language has a word for an attempt on the life of the aunt of a Hottentot potentate**? And German onomatopoeia must be really something else, the way they spell! Steve
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16 Jun 99 - 12:27 PM (#87171) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Steve Parkes Damn! I got another |
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16 Jun 99 - 12:49 PM (#87177) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Fadac I believe that the word for tank, in WWI German was (one word now) AVeachialThatGoesOverTheWireAndOverTheTenchWithA BigGunToKillTheEnemey. Whew! There may have been some sybles about making lots of noise too. There was a Lyza Menoly song about a "Tit Sling", Then there is the "Over the sholder boulder holder." Or the infamous "Double Barrall sling shot". In the early days of home computing my wife had a T shirt that said "Duel Flppies" Hmmmm The graphic showed the old (very) 8" flops.
Howcome in English, we drive on the parkway and park in the driveway? Of course we are upside down, our nose runs and our feet smell.
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16 Jun 99 - 12:55 PM (#87179) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: cleod Actually, 'pernickitie/pernickity' means cantankerous or touchy in scottish... 'Nyaa-nyaa' = Japanese for 'meow' and 'piyo-piyo' is their version of 'cheep-cheep' |
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16 Jun 99 - 01:12 PM (#87183) Subject: Lyr Add: ZE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (V Herbert, H Blossom From: MMario Thread creep! But at least it's a song; found out on the Levy Site when it still ran fast enough to see things... MMario
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16 Jun 99 - 01:17 PM (#87185) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: catspaw49 Steve, Let me explain about kat......well, that's impossible, but let me explain the phallic thing. Every now and again, male or female, we kitties go through certain times where our body chemistry takes over everything else. In my younger days I'd spend weeks on end prowling and howling and having the occasional shoe thrown at me. Our dear kat seems to be in one of these heated times where even a pancake takes on a phallic aura. I was very concerned when I heard that the Pony Express rider was missing in Wyoming, but happily kat was not involved. It'll pass. catspaw |
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16 Jun 99 - 08:02 PM (#87253) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Shula Dear folks, To return to the point, "swittle"'s'wonderful! Surprised no one mentioned "boing." As for smartarse, how about the word "yonic" derived, so I'm told, from the Hindu(?) word "yoni," meaning "female genitalia," as an opposite descriptor to "phallic?" But I digress. Personal favourite ONOMATOPŒIA: "par-par." (transliterated Hebrew for "butterfly). Said with a Hebrew accent, the "r's" roll ever so softly, making a wee flutter like the wings of a butterfly. Has a sort of bi-lateral symmetry to boot. Now how about ONOMATOPŒIA in SONG? "The Marvelous Toy" comes to mind. Shalom, Shula |
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16 Jun 99 - 08:12 PM (#87257) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: WyoWoman "A thing's a phallic symbol if it's longer than it's wide, And the Id goes marching on.... "Glory, glory psychotherapy, Glory, glory sexuality, Glory, glory, now we can be free, And the Id goes marching on...." (From a Melanie album back when the Earth was young and so was I, sung to the tune of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic") Somewhere up there, someone said "piyo,piyo" is Japanese for the sound birds make. "Pio, pio" is the Spanish. Do only English-speaking birds go "cheep, cheep?" Have you heard about that terrible sickness going on now with the pet bird population? Yup, it's called Chirpes. ... It's a canarial disease. ... And it's very hard to tweet. Ok, ok. I'm leaving now. KC |
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16 Jun 99 - 08:33 PM (#87262) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Max Hi Shula! How're ya doin? I just LOVE bilateral Symmetry KC, That's one of my favorite songs, I sing it a lot, even tho' I'm a guy Bert. |
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16 Jun 99 - 09:48 PM (#87282) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Shula Dear Bert et al, Doin' remarkably well, "EK-chew-ly," thanks much for askin.' And as for BS (bilateral symmetry, what else?), not to "like" it would be positively anti-human...especially, one might suppose, for the male of the species. "The Marvelous Toy" is a long-time favourite with my guys and quite a few other children-of-indeterminate-age of our acquaintance, as well. We do it, as Joe O. can attest, complete with explosive sound effects. It was our son Joel's nightly request for three or four pre-school years , because the "noises" in "The MARBLE-ous Toy" made him giggle himself giddy. Another excellent children's song with "noises" is The Ugly Duckling" from "Hans Christian Andersen." Hope others will expand the discussion from these two titles into a proper list. Ever, Shula
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16 Jun 99 - 09:51 PM (#87284) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: LEJ McGwire strides to the plate, the dry ground crunches beneath his spikes. The crowd murmurs with anticipation, while the Announcer babbles into the microphone. McGwire taps home plate with the bat and assumes his stance- the pitcher winds up, and gives a snort as the ball leaves his hand. The high hanging slider hisses toward the catcher, but McGwire makes contact and the crack of the bat splits the air. Fireworks crackle as the ball sails out of the park, only to smash the windshield of a Chevy Suburban parked outside. Flashbulbs pop and the home crowd roars as Mac rounds the bases. In the distance a muffled thud is heard as Ruth's record hits the dust. |
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17 Jun 99 - 01:57 AM (#87315) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Sandy Paton Playing "Dictionary" (sometimes called "Fictionary") one night with friends, someone came up with "cloop" from one of my old dictionaries. True definition turned out to be "the sound of a cork being extracted from a wine bottle." No one chose the correct definition, of course, because it sounded like a joke. Sandy |
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17 Jun 99 - 04:14 AM (#87332) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: The_one_and_only_Dai Old English/Anglo Saxon - a cow is called a 'cuu', and a crow is a 'ca'. |
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17 Jun 99 - 04:54 AM (#87336) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Theodore Alexiou Dear katlaughing "titravate" in Greek are two words "ti travate" and thye exact translation is "what do you pull" but we use it by the meaning of "you have a problem" or "is a bad situatuion" etc. Theodore |
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17 Jun 99 - 08:08 AM (#87359) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Steve Parkes I don't think that's the meaning it would get where I come from! |
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17 Jun 99 - 08:35 AM (#87367) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Penny S. I seem to remember being told that Waggawagga in Oz gets its name from the crows there. Penny |
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17 Jun 99 - 09:14 AM (#87370) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Wolfgang just for the record, 'tank' in German is 'Panzer', not a very long word. There might have been a longer word when the tanks first arrived, but surely not nearly as long as fadac seems to think. But that's a rule in all languages: words tend to be shortened when they are used often, there is an inverse relationship between length of a word and frequency of usage. Just one example, both from English and German. 'Radio' in both languages was a much longer word when it was introduced. Or think of those broadside song titles like (I make it up): "A mournful story about the life and horrible death of the murderer..." which, if the song has survived at all, are known today under much shorter titles.
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17 Jun 99 - 10:12 AM (#87383) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Fergus Of course, English has some potential for similar things: Hence words like 'antidisestablishmentarianism'. It's just that usually the compounds only have one 'standard' word combined with as many prefixes and suffixes as you like. But just stringing words together isn't too rare either - take 'goalkeeper', or 'coatmaker' or whatever. It's not such a standard thing as in German. I wonder if it's rarer in other languages? As for onomatopeia - let us not forget 'bubble' and 'globule'. And Schplutt.
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17 Jun 99 - 11:18 AM (#87400) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Wolfgang let's not forget 'mama' which resembles the first natural sucking sound (that's why mama in Latin stand for breast) and 'bahbah' which is the first natural sound of disgust. (I'm serious about the first part of the argument) Wolfgang |
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17 Jun 99 - 12:29 PM (#87419) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Steve Parkes Hi Wolfgang, thanks for clarifying things! I hope you don't get the impression that I'm making fun of the German language, or the people who speak it ... well, maybe I am, but only gentle fun, and I can take it just as well as dish it out. If any offence was taken, I apologise - but don't get mad, get even! I actually got Hottentot.. from a guy called Fritz Spiegel, who was German before the war, but hurriedly became British just before it started. He's written a good many humorous books (in English!), including one called (if memory serves) "Funny peculiar and funny ha-ha". (Hottentot.. was in the introduction.) It comprised newspaper cuttings in the nature of "General flies back to front" (ha-ha) and "Folksinger killed by transvestite" (peculiar). Now French - there's a language where it's almost impossible not to sound pompous. We can say "the king of England's hat", which may be silly to a foreigner, but "the hat of the king of England", while unambiguous, sounds ... well, silly. Steve |
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17 Jun 99 - 12:55 PM (#87425) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Wotcha The German word for Owl is [sorry if the spelling is off] Uhu ( pronounced OO-h-oo). The American Indian word used by a tire dealership in Oklahoma: "Ugh" Cheers, Brian |
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17 Jun 99 - 01:35 PM (#87428) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: MudGuard Wolfgang, what about Straßenbahnschienenritzenreinigungsfahrzeugherstellerchefsekretärin...(secretary of the boss of the company producing the vehicles to clean the railways of an urban tramway) Andreas |
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17 Jun 99 - 01:36 PM (#87429) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: skarpi Halló folks, mine is " krunk,krunk" sound from the rawen wicth we call " krummi " here in Iceland. we have a song about the raven or krummi and I think Ill write it down for you. krummi krunkar úti, kallar á nafna sinn, Ég fann höfuð á hrúti, hrygg og gæruskinn. krunk,krunk, kroppaðu með mér, krummi nafni minn. If you want to know what those words mean I might tell you later, we have a few more about the raven. bless skarpi Iceland. |
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18 Jun 99 - 03:39 AM (#87599) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Wolfgang Andreas, fine words, now should we try to come up with one that is longer than one line here and look what it does to Max' editor?
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18 Jun 99 - 03:49 AM (#87600) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Steve Parkes But is it der die or das? Ireally should learn the language. Actually, I think I'm one of the very few people who enjoys grammar. Nice one, Skarpi - it does kind of roll off the tongue! There was a science fiction novel in the seventies called "Kronk" (from the noise mafde by a raven in the last chapter). It was written by a British author; which is strange, begause our ravens go "caw". Steve |
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18 Jun 99 - 10:21 AM (#87663) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: The_one_and_only_Dai If you listen carefully, Steve, they actually say 'nevermore'. This is true. And yes, I have been down the pub this lunchtime. So have you, judgfinbg bny yuore trypiongg. |
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18 Jun 99 - 11:49 AM (#87686) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Roger the zimmer While we're on animal sounds, Donald Swann (of Flanders and...)used to do a song ,allegedly in Greek (must have been ancient Greek of Katheravousa 'cos I could't recognise any of the words), which was like "Old MacDonald had a farm" with cats going "mew mew" etc , and the title "Kokoraki" was supposed to be "cock-a-doodle-do" in Greek. Perhaps Theodore can enlighten us if it is genuine! Whenever I'm in Greece, the cockerels seem to wake up just after the dogs go to sleep but before the donkeys and goats start! An extra Metaxas 3-star usually helps me sleep through! Xerete |
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18 Jun 99 - 12:55 PM (#87704) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Bert Hey Roger, It was just like that in Bahrain. At some unearthly hour the Muezzin would walk through the village on his way to the Mosque. At the sound of his footsteps the neighbor's dog would start barking, this would wake up the dog down the street who would wake up a rooster or two, who would wake up a donkey. Eventually all the barking and crowing and braying would quieten down. Then the Muezzin would start his call which would start the dog barking which would again waken every animal in the village. Eventually, just as it started getting quiet again the first of the faithful would walk down the street on the way to their prayers and the dog would............ Bert. |
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18 Jun 99 - 01:05 PM (#87708) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Bert I suppose cacophany would be the word. |
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18 Jun 99 - 01:32 PM (#87712) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Barbara a sussurus of wind in the grass slime wiggly being around too much tintinabulation can give you tintinitis
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18 Jun 99 - 02:29 PM (#87720) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: cleod hi shula, butterfly in filipino is paru-paro -- sound familiar? and kc, piyo piyo is also used by the japanese as the sound your beeper makes ^_^ tik-tila-ok is a rooster's crow in filipino (i used to think they sounded more like ur-urer-er!) cat in (fookien)chinese is pronounced 'nyao' and dog is 'kao' question: what is 'ouch' in other languages? I know it's 'aray' in filipino and 'itai' in japanese... |
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18 Jun 99 - 02:35 PM (#87722) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Wolfgang 'ouch' is 'au' in German and our roosters sound 'kikeriki', our cats, of course, 'miau', and our dogs 'wauwau' Wolfgang |
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18 Jun 99 - 03:29 PM (#87737) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Bert Hagar the Horrible's dog 'Snert' goes VOOF and Helga's duck goes KVACK |
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18 Jun 99 - 04:18 PM (#87756) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: The Shambles I'm with Skarpi. Ravens 'Kronk'. Nearly all of the local names for birds in Shetland are from their calls. Terns are 'tirriks'. Curlews are 'whaarps' and Whimbels (which are smaller versions) are 'peerie' (small) 'whaarps'. |
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18 Jun 99 - 04:24 PM (#87759) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: LEJ Not really onomatopoeic, but in one of John Masefield's poems about the sea he refers to fishing boats as "scud-thumpers", and to "the seal's wide spindrift gaze". Spindrift is the spray thrown off by breaking waves in high wind. LEJ |
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19 Jun 99 - 12:42 AM (#87867) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Margo And a cow's moo in French is appropriately meuh. I love the bilateral butterfly symmetry. Hey, I've heard plucked guitar strings called a twang. (That depends on how you're plucking) I've seen a concertina's sound described as a honk. (A pleasant honk, which seems like an oxymoron to me) Isn't there a better word for that wonderful instrument? Margarita |
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19 Jun 99 - 01:05 AM (#87874) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: obloquy67 I personally like finding wearable onomatopoeiae, like bangles and flip-flops, as well as edible oxymorons, such as jumbo shrimp & non-dairy creamer. |
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19 Jun 99 - 08:18 AM (#87929) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: MudGuard In Germany, the few ravens that are still left "krächzen"! |
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28 Mar 16 - 06:31 PM (#3781938) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: keberoxu Ha! Nobody touched upon the Arabic word for BAT -- that's the Fledermaus animal, not the baseball implement. The Arabic word for bat is "wat-wat." |
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29 Mar 16 - 03:35 AM (#3781998) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: MGM·Lion Slash --- In all its various senses of Cut with a sharp instrument - both noun & verb A stroke with a flexible instrument of corporal punishment An act of urination & probably others which don't arise to mind at the moment. ≈M≈ |
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29 Mar 16 - 03:47 AM (#3781999) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Mr Red in a shady nook, by a babbling brook |
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29 Mar 16 - 05:01 AM (#3782005) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: GUEST,Brian Grayson Shula's 'parpar' reminded me of the utterly onomatopoeic Ivrit word for a bottle: 'bakbook'(think of the glugging sound of liquid pouring from a bottle. For that matter, 'bottle' is reminiscent of the same sound, especially when spoken by a Cockney... |
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29 Mar 16 - 04:25 PM (#3782103) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: GUEST,LynnT And a cork in Hebrew is a 'pekak' -- emphasis on the second syllable -- which is of course the sound it makes when you pull it out of the bakbook. A pekak is also the person on a kibbutz who does whatever job needs doing -- a floater or cork filling the most immediate holes. Lynn |
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29 Mar 16 - 05:24 PM (#3782113) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: Joe_F The Russian for violin is "skripka". |
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29 Mar 16 - 05:31 PM (#3782115) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: GUEST,Gealt Thomas Gray's Elegy The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.... Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;.... http://people.ucalgary.ca/~dsucha/elegy.html |
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29 Mar 16 - 06:43 PM (#3782130) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: frogprince And sometimes, when folks are amorous but otherwise quiet, you hear a little repetitive sound that could be spelled "fwup, fwup, fwup, fwup, but that's not the spelling for that that happened to become customary. |
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30 Mar 16 - 12:46 PM (#3782286) Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language From: GUEST,Don Day I just LOVE Vin Garbutts little story from about 15 or so years ago when he related the origin of the name of a midland town built by the roman invaders. A mattress was thrown from an upper floor of a roman high-rise. "That'll do" said the mayor. "We'll call it Biddulph. Brilliant! I still laugh at it. |