Re: Interjections
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 7, 2005, 10:55 |
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:49:13 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:14:04PM -0000, caeruleancentaur wrote:
> > I'm wondering if different emotions call forth similar phonemes, e.g., is
> > pain always "ow"?
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> By no means. The Spanish and Italian for "ow" is [a'i], for instance.
And French uses |aïe| (["aj@]?).
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 04:32:40 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> (And my grandma uses /hm=?m=hm=/ for 'yes!' :-)))
Reminds me of the English pair "uh-huh" and "huh-uh" that some people
use for "yes" and "no", respectively.
> And |ieh!| /i:/ and |bäh!| /bE/ or /bE:/ is German for 'yuck!'.
What I find amusing is the contrast between German |ieh!| "yuck! ick!"
and Japanese |ii| "good" :) "Sore wa ieh desu yo!"
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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