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

Please tell me English onomatopeia which you use in your everday life describing the situation
For example
When you use "aaaawwwwww"
When you scream how you can say or tell us in written English when you mail to your friend, write your diary, journal, etc..
Please tell me. I just want to know this kind of "sounds" as they are different from Japanese like animals' sounds
Hope this thread will make you enjoy, too

Animal sounds:

Dog: Woof, bow-wow
Cat: meiow, purr
Cow: Moo
Sheep: Baa
Chicken: Cluck-cluck

People sounds:

Screaming: Aaaarrrrgggghhhh!
Crying: boo-hoo
Sneezing: a-choo

Does that help? What do you say in Japanese for all of these?

Cyzaki
Yes, very helpful though I know some of animal sounds

In Japanese (I know you can understand how to pronounce Japanese)
Dog: "UUUUUU" "won won" (One-One lol)
Cat: "Miyao" very similar with "meiow"
Cow: "Mou mou" this is similar with yours as well
Sheep: I don't know
Chicken: ko(t) ko(t) ko(t) ko(t).. (something like this)
Cocka-doodle-doo---- Kokekokkoooooo

People sounds:

Screaming: Kyaaaaaaaaaaa!
Crying: "Weeeen"
Sneezing: "Hakkushoooon"

Does that help?

When someghing surprise you, what do you "scream"?
In Japanese, "Waaaaa" "Kyah", etc.

Or, like "come on!" when someone make you irritated, in Japanese, mooou!
Are there any?

Surprise: wow! ooh!

Irritated: grrrr...

Ta!

Taamyu, is this any good to you

http://www.sounddogs.com/start.asp

don't know about these, they would have to be looked at

http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/links/link-english.htm

animal
for giving me lots of info.
I'll try to access and find the most helpful one

It's(my cousin's place) is bit cooler than my hometown

Onomatopeia is such a difficult question for you as it may be different depending on people, generation and situation.


Taamyu

I will have to look it up

looked up and :-
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/onomatopoeia.html
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/onomat.htm
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/rdg/onomatopoeiahelp.html

never heard of the word beforeand I'll never use it either

think I'll stick with cat/sat/mataway for supper and then bed, see you soon

Yo-Ho-Ho

I'm a soft pirate, instead of Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum, its Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of mineral water with a squeeze of lemon

Ho-Ho is also an onomatopoeia, isn't it?
Do you use it so often?

Santa Claus says that at Christmas time:

"Ho, ho, ho!"

And shakes his belly like a bowlful of jelly

Ho-ho-ho
Sounds lovely
So, you actuarly utter ho-ho-ho