Comment by pbh101
5 hours ago
Interestingly, in practice different languages tend to have markedly different common representations of animal sounds.
5 hours ago
Interestingly, in practice different languages tend to have markedly different common representations of animal sounds.
In Korean, dogs say meong (멍), sounds like mung) rather than woof.
In Romanian the dog says 'ham ham'
In Spanish, they say "guau" (pronounced like "wow")
in English i say UAUH? (pronounced like Tim from Home Improvement)
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Sure, and not every single person agrees with the proposed phonetic shape-matching either, but the broad trend does hold and there is similarly in animal vocalizations even across unrelated languages.