And I survived!!!

Breaking news:

I ate fugu and lived to tell about it!

 

…with a bu-bu here and a bu-bu there…?

We tend to think of animal noises as falling into the language category of onomatopoeia — cats meow and cows moo– which is why I think it is so weird that different languages have different sounds to represent these animal sounds. Here are some for Japanese: 

• cat:  niya-niya 
• dog:  kan-kan  or wun-wun
• pig:  bu-bu 
• sheep: meh
• horse:  hi-hin
• cow:  moo-moo (this is how they spell it put it sounds like mo-mo)
• owl:  ho-ho
• frog:  gero- gero (with a hard “g” sound) 

 And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.