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Nitram

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2. English might have more onomatopoetic words than you know.

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Sat Jan 2, 2016, 04:45 PM

Jan 2016

English has onomatopoeia, but Japanese has far more. For example, we have “om-nom-nom” for eating and they have “paku-paku” for eating normally, “baku-baku” for eating wildly, “gatsu-gatsu” for eating fast, “mogu-mogu” for chewing a lot, etc. Doesn’t it make your head spin?

Chew, chomp, slurp are all onomatopoetic words used for eating. Dogs: bark, ruff-ruff, bow-wow, woof-woof, arf, yip,yap, howl.

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11 Beautiful Japanese Words That Don't Exist In English [View all] yuiyoshida Jan 2016 OP

K&R - cool, thanks for the post! nt. jonno99 Jan 2016 #1

English might have more onomatopoetic words than you know. Nitram Jan 2016 #2