Wed 15 Nov 2006
My sister Kristen wanted to know how the French represent the sound that dogs and ducks make. I didn’t know, so I looked it up. Her curiosity sprang from the odd way the Chinese think about certain animal noises. I forget the specific details, but perhaps she’ll comment and let us in on a few crazy examples.
Perhaps, you too, have wondered about the sounds of animals around the world?
- Bee: bzzzz (L’abeille vrombit; elle fait bzzzz.)
- Bird: cuicui (L’oiseau p©pie; il fait cuicui.)
- Cat: miaou (Le chat miaule; il fait miaou.)
- Cow: meuh (La vache meugle; elle fait meuh.)
- Dog: ouah ouah (Le chien aboie; il fait ouah ouah.)
- Duck: coin coin (Le canard canard cancane; il fait coin coin.)
- Frog: coa-coa (La grenouille coasse; elle fait coa-coa.)
I guess that I am supposed to comment (perhaps this is Ryan’s latest ploy to increase his comment to blog ratio). In Taiwan, dogs make a “wang wang” sound and ducks make a “gua gua” sound. Those are the two animals that I remember. Perhaps I will comment later if I think of more.
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Interesting topic. I thought French cows said Le moo….?
*obligatory French-bashing comment*
Q: What’s the onomatopoeia of Victory?
A: Unknown. It’s a concept foreign to the modern French vocabulary.
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Yes it sounds like it to me too,