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My favorite Japanese onomatopoeia is shiin (シーン), the sound of silence. Used both literally and figuratively if you're shocked into silence by something. Inte
by thematrixturtle 4y ago
My favorite Japanese onomatopoeia is shiin (シーン), the sound of silence. Used both literally and figuratively if you're shocked into silence by something.
Interestingly, English has the latter use too, we just write it "..." and it doesn't have a pronunciation.
- Do you know where I store my dad jokes? In a dad-abase!
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- gus_massa 4y agoIn Argentina we use "cri cri" (that sounds like "kree kree"). It's suppose to be sound of crickets.
- totetsu 4y agoA stand out memory from my visit to Argentina was all the crazy bug sounds. One sounded exactly like the cartoon sound effect of an arrow being shot into a target.
- anthk 4y agoSpain too.
- ukz 4y agoSame here in Indonesia, we use “krik krik”.
- labster 4y agoJapan has the tsukutsukuboshi, which is a cricket that sounds like that. There’s definite animal naming from their sounds. For one species, we get: crow, corvo, karasu, Krähe, cacalotl, gaa, kkamagwi.
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- lmiller1990 4y agoAnother fun one regarding silence would be じっと見る（JITTO MIRU）which is the sound of someone staring at something.
- needle0 4y agoThat would be the adjective+verb form, as it would appear in regular prose. If written as an onomatopoeia it would be written じーっ (Jiii')
- KSPAtlas 4y agoI haven't heard that dad joke yet.