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Od: Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...>
Do: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Data: 23 listopada 1998 08:20
Temat: Re: onomatopeyics in conlangs
>>At 20:32 22/11/98 +0100, you wrote:
>>>
>>>-----Wiadomo=B6=E6 orginalna-----
>>>Od: Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...>
>>>Do: lucasso <lucasso@...>
>>>Data: 22 listopada 1998 17:15
>>>Temat: Re: onomatopeyics in conlangs
>>>
>>>
>>>>At 23:25 21/11/98 +0100, you wrote:
>>>>>-----Wiadomo=B6=E6 orginalna-----
>>>>>Od: Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...>
>>>>>Do: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
>>>>>Data: 21 listopada 1998 14:50
>>>>>Temat: Re: onomatopeyics in conlangs
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> In Japanese:
>>>>>>cat nyan /njan/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>wasn't it 'nyao'
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why not? I also saw nyaa nyaa. I saw in a manga a girl named
Nyanko
>>>>(which was traduced in French by 'Miaou', weird name).
>>>>
>>>sounds logical nyan+ko(common female names prefix)
>>
>> That's exactly how I analysed it.
>>
>>>but i remember (perhaps from some manga comix) nyao as cat sound, mayb=
e
>>>there are just more that one onomato#$@#$#@((:)) for cat in japanese
>>
>
> Cats don't have only one sound, so I think that's normal (like i=
n
>French where a dog sound can be 'ouah !' or 'ouaf' or 'wouf' plus
>reduplications).
>>
or maybe it's just becouse natural, non human sounds are hard to be writt=
en
by human scripts