Re: Primary Interjections - Universals?
| From: | jogloran <exponent@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 8, 2002, 9:42 |
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When a Dutch person sneezes, he says: "Hatsjoe!"
When a Polish person sneezes, he says: "Apsik!"
I was quite astonished when I heard people in Poland
really making an "apsik"-like kind of sound when they
sneezed, which to my Dutch ears sounded quite funny.
Probably, this was just the "sophisticated" way of
sneezing, while pronouncing the word on purpose.
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Hah, that's odd. The Japanese sneezing onomatopoeia is "hakushon!"
Imperative
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