Comments on J-List side blog: Onomatopoeia, or Sound Words in Japanese

The German onomatopoetic sounds for those animals ...

2009-07-14T19:52:15.067+09:00

The German onomatopoetic sounds for those animals would be "Wau wau" or "Wuff wuff" for a dog, "Kikeriki!" for a rooster, and "Miau" for a cat (the "miau" being pronounced nearly exactly like "meow" in English.)

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Actually, Peter, "nyan" is probably the ...

2009-07-14T15:49:16.980+09:00

Actually, Peter, "nyan" is probably the closest-to-English-variant Japanese onomatopoeia I've heard. The rest... just don't make any sense. Funny enough, I heard the "boo" sound(boo-boo, actually)was used when someone said/did something incorrectly, like a buzzer. I think George Trombley of YesJapan also said something about it.

Haha, rooster sounds are fun. In Spanish, they app...

2009-07-14T02:25:43.652+09:00

Haha, rooster sounds are fun. In Spanish, they apparently go "kikiri kikiri kiiii!"

This is one of the reasons why I love studying lan...

2009-07-13T19:36:47.297+09:00

This is one of the reasons why I love studying languages - it's fascinating to see how different similar things are interpreted in different languages.

By the way, I was wondering if you're going to get the mü-bot or mu-bot headphones back in stock some day? Mine broke recently, after a long time of faithful service. The problem is not the headphones, but me - I somehow manage to break even the best headphones (it's usually the cables getting too stressed, which is why I got a mu-bot in the first place. It lasted much, much longer than any other headphones I had.).

So, I'd be happy if you'd get them back in stock some day, as I'd like to order a new pair.

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