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Re: Arthropoda

From:Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 31, 2000, 15:57
Japanese onomatopoeia = _uyo uyo_  - swarming (e.g. insects, fish, etc.)

Yoru no kurai daidokoro ni wa gokiburi ga uyo uyo shite iru.
<<At night, the dark kitchen is crawling with cockroaches.>>

                    - from _Nihon Pera Pera!: A Guide to 'don don,' 'peko
peko,' 'za za' and Other Japanese Onomatopoeia_  by Susan Millington, 1993