h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Not too promising so far...

Der Hund sagt, " woofwoof! "
El perro dice, " woof del woof! "
Le chien indique, " woof de woof! "

...and the Atinlay igpay ays, "oink"

Blimey, my memory must have been playing tricks on me. Are you sure? Have we stumled across an international animal esperanto here?
If we could talk to the animals we could perhaps learn how to talk to each other. I'll keep looking, I'm just about to ask someone who speaks Icelandic if they have their own words for it...

So it's just animal noises . Well I'll look for some more, I got Arabic, Hebrew, Finnish, Tagalog, maybe some Cantonese, and Vietnemese definitely covered

OK maybe an article on Onom...onerrm...that word would be a good idea and the animal thing could branch off of it. I'll put my thinking cap on.

*Owww*

Who left all these drawing pins in my thinking cap?

Whoops- sorry.
That would be a good idea- Sounds describing emotions would be fun- it seems that different languages use different expressions when surprised, hurt, etc... but animals make the same sounds, so the onotmonotmonotnpopmpoias would be more similar. Like while in English "O!" is used a bit, "Ay!" is preferred in Spanish and "Yee?!" is used in Arabic hehe this is fun!

OK I've got a new page at http://www.h2g2.com/A155341
Let's stick it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes it

It's got a link on my page

A question that has bothered me for some time is -

"Do pure bred dogs bark differently to mongrels"?

Would the pups of 2 pure bred Old English Sheepdogs have a regal BOW Wow as opposed to pups resulting from an Old English Sheepdog-German Shepherd cross who might have a down-market Woof Woof?

Or maybe I should sign into the nearest lunatic asylum

I think you'll find that your proper asylum type places are strictly by invitation only, but I do know a place that will sell you all the big white straightjackets if you're into that

Cheers for the link Fenchurch

Meanwhile back to the pedigree barking question

I need an answer - it's driving me barking mad

4 jackets please and a pink one for the panther

My cat, Mousy Tongue, thinks he's from China.

Mao, mao, mao.


And then there's the dog, Roquefort, but he smells. Oh, and his barks, in French (naturally) sound like Oof, Oof, Oof, aOOF.

Harry, my pet hedgehog, is magnificently mute

He bristles at the mere thought of speech

The bristles do create noise if I pat Harry.

Yowl, Yellch - sometimes I start howling

hej there..
john-the-gardener sent me over there, because of the onamotopöiööiöisis of german sheep - which sounds "määääh". A stupid sound, real fitting Goats the same, just with a stutter in it...
dogs in germany bark "wuff wuff" or - as children learn it, but they seldom do - "wau".
cats would sound "miau", so its just a different notation.... while roosters would crow "kikeriki" (but I like the english cockadoodledoo better ). From crows and raven you hear "krääh" or "krah", while frogs and ducks are similarly going "quack". For pigs' sounds we don't have any written word they just grunt ("grunzen" in german, onom.... again )
I try to think about more words, you'll hear from me...

Frogs go Quack?!!!!!!!!!!! I need to go lie down!

yeeeeees... with a long aaaaa
quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.
I always wondered if there are never any misunderstandings between ducks and frogs.... what do they say in english??

Ribbet!

The ever so polite English frogs murmur a deep "ribbid" sound, but I can't remember ever seeing it written down so I'm unsure on the spelling.
According to their beer adverts, American frogs take it in turns to say "Bud-Weiser", which apparently displeases chameleons - not quite the 'pathetic fallacy' (as reptiles are indeed animate) but pretty daft really.

Wow! Synchronous posts help to illustrate the ribbet/ribbid spelling problem

NZ frogs go croooak, sounds similar to an ancient person clearing their throat, and sometimes, sqwoosh, when run over by cars.

They cry pitifully when their legs are pulled of by sadistic children.