This is what happens with there is little sleep + stress +...I blame Yin.

She had a cute doggie macro posted over on some doggie macro thing...and....okay, it is too long, I sum up:

English speaking roosters say "Cocka doodle doo."
French speaking roosters say "Coco ri co."

Seriously. And their dogs go "bow bow"

I mean, this is from the people who gave us the word for "grapefruit" as "pamplemousse." (Which? Cracks me up.) There's crossover, but uh...very not one to one.

How can animals be onomotopoetic in different languages?

I mean. Dude.

(I swear, if you people totally try to answer this seriously, I will cut you. I mean I know why, it's our ears, and it's the same reason you feel like you should be able to speak French after a subtitled film. But still. Dude. It's kind of awesome.)

AND? How awesome is an international discussion of animal noises?

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German roosters go Kikeriki. Do with that what you will. *g*

Darn. You stole my comment. ;)

German dogs go Wau Wau.

Capital letters are important for German animals, aren't they?

Bwahaha! Go me! ;p

Capital letters are important, period. You can never have enough of them. :/

You mean they are important EXCLAMATION MARK

(Seriously, I went insane last week with the constant spelling out of punctuation. It is all RayK's and Diefenbaker's fault EXCLAMATION MARK)

Yes. They Are!

Glad you agree EXCLAMATION MARK

See, the thing s? I can do animal impressions. I do an awesome rooster (and cat and dog) and? they all fit.

Bet you won't beat my impersonation of a single woman who lives alone with her cat and hates other people, though. ;p

Animal impressions. Animal. Uh, unless you've gone feral.

::backs away slowly::

Not really, no. But you probably shouldn't feed me.

I can do an impression of elephants and/or monkeys. But only really, really loud.

It's very hard to moderate those too. And horses. Also camels. And parrots.

Ancient Greek frogs went "brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax".

I'm not sure if modern Greek frogs still follow that, though.

(I was going to answer this seriously, but okay maybe not ;))

ko-ax? Dude. That is some complicated ribiting.

Yeah, I reckon... Obviously they had classier more intelligent frogs back then?!!

Although, if you croak it out like c-oooh-AX and say it many times fast, then it does actually begin to sound like a noise which might have come from a frog?

In addition! My little brother says JAPANESE frogs go "gero gero, or kero kero, or something like that". Apparently.

Modern Greek frogs still say the same thing - THEY understand a continuous culture, even if SOME scholars refuse to do so. *lips purse, eyes narrow*

Greek dogs say "ghav, ghav" - and, while the more pretentious feline will say "miaou," your average cat on the street will counter with "niaou."

BTW, love, love, love the Checkmate 'verse. Made me want to join lj, until the strikethrough thingyness, but I'm still thinking.

Eurydice

Eurydice, (what a lovely name! So classy)

Do join up, and just don't give'm any money.

French ducks go "coin, coin," which if pronounced correctly, is a lot closer than "quack, quack" to actual duckspeak.

[Thanks to my high school French teacher]

Yup. I don't think they actually can say "k". They don't have the teeth to press their tounge against.

Ummm...
Sorry, I have to:

You don't need teeth to make a /k/ sound. It is a back stop, made by pushing the back of your tongue against your soft pallet. Say "cake" a few times, your tongue need never touch your teeth.

You're right. But does a duck have a soft palate?

A Sri Lankan friend insisted that a wolf/dog howl is:

Kong Kong
or
Kang Kang

I can't remember which way, but it made sense when she pronounced it. It looks nuts on paper though.

It do!

Uh, but no more than me having an actual discussion about this. :D

Meanwhile, back at Old Mac Ivanoff's collective farm in the great state of Russia (in Soviet Russia, field plows YOU!), rather than oinking, the pig says hrgu-hrgu.

Go figure.

It sounds so inscrutable, somehow, and dissatisfied. Possibly waiting for his potato peelings to ferment.

Many many years ago NPR did a story about the sounds a dog, a cat, a chicken, a duck, a goose, a cow, a pig, a sheep, and a frog made around the world. It was so funny because most of them did not sound even close to the sounds we claim the same made in the English language.

I teased my French students all year this year asking them to make the cat sound or the puppy sound or the chicken sound. It was pretty funny.

HEE.
Polish roosters go "Kukuryku"
Polish dogs go "Hau Hau" which should be read almost exactly like "How How".
Also, ducks say "Kwa kwa" which doesn't have the english 'w' sound, but rather 'v' or 'f' since it gets devoiced. and 'a' is long 'a', as in 'car'.
Pigs do "Kwik", the same sound in the middle.
Only cats are similar to the English onomatopeia, with their 'Miau' which should be pronounced similarily to 'Meow'.

I've been thinking about the whole thing a few times, actually. Especially when I learn that when you call a cat in Flamish, you say 'Pussy', but in Polish it's "Kici kici", which is pronounced with a soft 'c', similar to 'Gucci', but without the 't' in 'tch' pronunciation...

My puppy reacts both to 'come here' and Polish "chodz tu" which just shows how smart he is, and how insane I am, teaching my dog commands in two languages. :D

And yes, I did get into a phonetics discourse about animal noises. I should be institutionalised :D.

But I love you so!!! And hey, I started it.

Cocorico, yes. Bow wow, not so much, French dogs say "ouaf ouaf" (pronounce: "waf waf"). There's some "grrrrrrr"s in there too.
And I'll have you know pamplemousse is wonderful, way more than grapefruit which took me years to get because grapefruit has nothing in common with grapes, and I have to say, WTF?
No, really.
Raisin and pamplemousse are very different!
So there.
titC, froggie extraordinaire (and hey, extraoridnaire doesn't really mean the same in French & English! Whee!)

I shall correct my barking, tout suite!
(Seriously, you're french? Cool!)

Generally: tout de suite (and you can elide the 'e' of 'de' when speaking reasonably quickly), or de suite if you're from Southern France - but no elision of the 'e' here!
Yes, I'm French and I spend my free time reading gay pr0n in English

...and hitting the wrong key and posting an unfinished comment.
Um.
I also watch ~~gay~~ TV shows and watch gay pr0n (see icon! join

hazz_mat! /pimp) and am generally a fandom serial lurker, since the few stories I wrote were Star Trek:TOS and, well, a few years ago.
And I teach... English. Without the pr0n, I guess the pupils' parents wouldn't like it.

pamplemousse! You said pamplemousse!

I love that word.

Israeli ducks say "Ga ga!"

No, I'm really not sure why.

And, uh... hi. I just spent a good chunk of this afternoon reading every single story in the Checkmate 'verse and I absolutely adored it. I'm filled with love for kitty!John and his Rodney, and for Teyla and Heightmeyer and Ronan and Lorne and... well, everyone. I love how you keep John so *him*, even with the fur and all.

Hi! Thank you for joining the madness, and I'm so glad you're enjoying the checkmate 'verse. I sure am having fun writing it!

And, uh... hi. I just spent a good chunk of this afternoon reading every single story in the Checkmate 'verse and I absolutely adored it. I'm filled with love for kitty!John and his Rodney, and for Teyla and Heightmeyer and Ronan and Lorne and... well, everyone. I love how you keep John so *him*, even with the fur and all.

Ditto :)

Yay!

Well Swedish roosters say: Kuckeliku
The dogs say Voff and the cats say mjau.
Pigs say Nöff witch I don't think makes much sense to you =P

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