Onomatopoeia - War of Languages!

We all know what onomatopoeia is(or I hope we do). However, not everyone may know is that the onomatopoeia differs between languages.

Now then the question is which languages onomatopoeia do you prefer. Do you prefer Japanese onomatopoeia for animals(nyaa being a cat noise, gaooo being a tiger's roar, chu chu being a squeaking mouse, paka paka being a horse(wth?!)). Or perhaps you just have a few favorites you would like to share(as a note I do like the Japanese nyaa over the English meow while I prefer the clip clop to the Japanese paka paka).

Anyways, let me give a list if you people just want to go 'I like that one better'. [D]=Dutch [E] = English [F]=French [H]= Hebrew [J] = Japanese

Meow[E] vs. Miyau[H] vs. Nyaa[J]

Purr[E] vs. Ronron[F] vs. Goro goro[J]

Kra kra[D] vs. Caw[E] vs. Croa-Croa[F] vs. Krak-krak[H] vs. Kar-kar[J]

Klip klap[D] vs. Clip clop[E] vs. Paka paka[J]

Me, I like Nyaa, Purr, kra-kra, and clip clop.


odd... all my capital J's inside the brackets were made lower case ......

I must admit, Japanese onomatopoeia is quite fun!

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This makes me wonder what Batman would have been like in Japan. :p

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This makes me wonder what Batman would have been like in Japan. :p

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I loved batman with onomatopoeia! That alone just made it ultimately cool(oh where oh where has my onomatopoeia gone, oh where oh where has it gone).


EDIT- OMG. The world is ENDING I forgot to put in my colored text!

Also, I do wish that site Shulp linked to would actually run halfway decently for me(IE tab never did work overly well for me to use for a standard browsing tool(it runs really slowly)).

I prefer miaow myself 8) it's kinda dated now, though.

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Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

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Click on the Japanese sound a snake makes. It sounds like a noise one of The Three Stooges would make.

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Click on the Japanese sound a snake makes. It sounds like a noise one of The Three Stooges would make.

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The Japanese lion is better.

japanese cow is better

i was half-expecting the japanese car sound to be a crash.

Posting in a bad thread.

>:O

This thread is actually interesting!

I'm making the noises (in my head) for the japanese animals and going 'huh?'

Not many of them make a lot of sense. 'paka paka' ?

kek

Well to be fair if you think about it clip clop makes just as much sense

I like BOOM!

but for an animal the undisputed champion is RAWR!

plus SCREEEE! is pretty cool too....

Ronron for a cat's purr? WTF?

Hmm....imagining it in a French accent makes sense, though.....