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Wait, "pspspsps"? Where are you from? I thought only Greeks do "pspspsps".
by YeGoblynQueenne 8d ago
Wait, "pspspsps"? Where are you from? I thought only Greeks do "pspspsps".
- pezezin 7d agoWe also do it in Spain, I think it is the international cat calling code.
- reaperducer 8d agoMy German grandmother did it, too.
- rafaelvasco 8d agoNo, it's somewhat common here in Brazil too.
- saghm 8d agoI've heard that my whole life in the US. I think my dad taught it to me when I was really young, because he loves cats and our neighbors across the street had some outdoor cats.
- nottorp 8d agoAnd Romanians.
- Avicebron 8d agoCan confirm that non-greek Americans do this as well.
- riffraff 8d agoWe do it in Italy too, afair (I'm a bit in doubt if we also do "tch tch tch")
- Modified3019 8d agoIt’s very common in the USA.
- kulahan 7d agoI think it has become common, but I never heard it until a few years ago. Now it's seemingly everywhere. When I was a kid, it was just "Here kitty kitty" or making a clicking noise with your tongue or something.
- rootusrootus 7d ago> making a clicking noise with your tongue or something I still do that today, and it works better than pspspspsps. When I was young, if my cat was outside on the porch I could click my tongue and he'd come running from a half block away. What a good kitty he was.
- Induane 7d agoWe do it in America
- astura 7d agopspspsps is biological , it's common noise to get a cats attention (in many places) because it stimulates their prey drive.
- jjtheblunt 7d agomaybe the phoneme sequence of plosive -> sibilant is easy to discern from background noise? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plosive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plosive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibilant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibilant
- WalterBright 7d agoI'm from America, and we do spspspsp.
- msephton 7d agoWe do it on the United Kingdom
- YeGoblynQueenne 7d agoWhere in the UK? I've lived in the UK, in the Southeast, for 21 years and I never heard anyone say "pspsps". I mean I don't doubt you, I just thought Brits just say "here kitty kitty" because that's what I usually see in movies and TV shows and so on. It's funny what you miss when you're not embedded in the culture of a place since birth...
- nephihaha 7d agoIt's common. But I tend to find people in the south east of England barely talk to one another. :)
- YeGoblynQueenne 5d agoOh yeah, that. But I'm a bloody foreigner so I get to speak to other bloody foreigners :)
- msephton 6d agoI'm from Liverpool (70s/80s/90s), and of course I've heard "here kitty" but "pspsps" equally as common during my time in London (90s/00s), Cornwall(10s/20s), etc. I always thought "pspsps" was a shortened form of "here pussy, pussy, pussy".
- bigiain 7d agoAustralia also uses pspspsps - at least my part of it and my family and friends. (and for some Australians some of the time, "ps ps fuckin ps, ya cunting cat!" of course. ;- ) )
- YeGoblynQueenne 7d ago"Cunting"! Not just "cunt" but "cunting"! I learned so much from this thread! :D
- ChoGGi 7d agoThat's a worldwide thing, as well as other stupid human noises ;) Tch tch tch
- MadrasTh0rn 7d agoAll of the US and some of Canada does pspspsps
- Tiktaalik 7d agowait where in Canada do they don't do pspspsps? (is there a francophone different one?)
- MadrasTh0rn 7d agoI'm just talking from my experience but francophone areas do it differently. They do ttttt (tongue at top of mouth clicking), kissing noise (as a non frank lol), or 'minou minou minou' (mimicking meow) to summon cats
- YeGoblynQueenne 7d agoWell it seems everyone uses that! Thanks guys, I had no idea and this is so interesting to know. Now I wonder if someone has made some kind of study about it. I'll go looking.