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ANIMAL ONOMATOPOEIAS<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A funny question that I have sometimes heard from the youngest students is \u00abDo dogs say ‘Guau’ in English?\u00bb, or \u00abHow do dogs bark in English?\u00bb. It may sound naive or childish but it is not so stupid to make that question as most people think.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0To begin with let me show you this illustration that provides the onomatopoeia used in many languages of the sound dogs make. This will show you that we are dealing with a cultural aspect radically different from one language to another.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It is funny to notice the amount of onomatopoeias that there are in\u00a0English. \u00a0There are\u00a0lots of words that imitate sounds and whose meanings are related to the sounds they evoke. Crash, crack, splash, zip, twank, boo, flip, knock, hiss, jingle, twinkle, boom, … and many more, are good examples.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 When it comes to animal sounds, and in spite of\u00a0a few\u00a0similarities, it is funny to notice\u00a0how different animals sound in\u00a0English, that is, how different\u00a0the word used to reproduce the sound of an animal\u00a0in English is from the one used in Spanish. This is a very interesting cultural aspect.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If a cow says \u00abmoo\u00bb in English, what does she say in Spanish?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Mu<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>, of course. But when we’re talking about sounds that animals make, it isn’t always that simple. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That shouldn’t be surprising \u2014 after all, in English words such as \u00abbark,\u00bb \u00abbow-wow,\u00bb \u00abruff-ruff\u00bb and \u00abarf\u00bb are used to imitate the sound of a dog. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The following list shows the sounds made by various \u00abSpanish-speaking\u00bb animals and the equivalent word or sound used by the \u00abEnglish-speaking\u00bb animals.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n