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Onomatopoeia?

Bang!
2
8%
Wham!
1
4%
Splash
0
No votes
Thud.
2
8%
Bonk!
1
4%
Splat
2
8%
Kaboom!!!!
1
4%
Zap
0
No votes
Aooooooooga...
12
48%
What's wrong with you?
4
16%
 
Total votes: 25

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Well, according to Clifford, the Big Red Dog, "It's a funny word, and a funny idea!"
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Hello Darkness, my old friend.
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Nga!

(Visayan for the sound a carabao makes)
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Etsing!

(Visayan for achoo!)
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Has anyone said "POP"? I don't feel like bothering with reading.
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SPLAT...SPLOOSH...PLOP!
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Ralph! (as in Barf, which I guess also qualifies)
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POIT, ZORT!!!
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Walden wrote:Etsing!

(Visayan for achoo!)
Kitti-Kee Kitti-Kee

I believe that this is the Persian form of Cock-a-doodle-doo
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Ming

(Visayan for meow)

Ming ming ming ming!

(Visayan for here kitty kitty kitty!)
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I.D.10-t wrote:Narf!
Hmmm... I alsways thought that was ...

"phnarf" ?

It's one of my faves, along with "SNERK!". :D
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Walden wrote: Ming ming ming ming!

(Visayan for here kitty kitty kitty!)
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BrassBlower wrote:
Walden wrote: Ming ming ming ming!

(Visayan for here kitty kitty kitty!)
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That's not a cat, thats a lime-mewer. :lol:
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Walden wrote: Etsing! (Visayan for achoo!)

Ming (Visayan for meow)
I.D.10-t wrote:Kitti-Kee Kitti-Kee
I believe that this is the Persian form of Cock-a-doodle-doo
I love foreign-language Onomatopoeia...
I once heard a Japanese woman describing her toddler running headlong into a wall... where
I would have said "bonk", she used a vowel I couldn't pronounce... sounded like "clowung"
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burp
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