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>The PiuPiu oversharing site allows users to create PiuPiu accounts and post 140-character messages. Hah- "Piu-Piu" is the Brazilian-Portuguese name for the Lo
by dbbolton 11y ago
>The PiuPiu oversharing site allows users to create PiuPiu accounts and post 140-character messages.
Hah- "Piu-Piu" is the Brazilian-Portuguese name for the Looney Tunes character Tweety:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piu-piu https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piu-piu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweety
- andrepd 11y agoYes, and "piu" is the Portuguese onomatopoeia for "tweet".
- lamuerteflaca 11y agoAnd in Spanish it is "pio" for tweet. Very close to the portuguese one.
- joeyoung 11y agoInteresting. I think "pio" is the onomatopoeia for tweet in Japanese too. It's the noise cash registers at Tokyo's Inageya supermarkets make when you use their points card.
- djfm 11y agoAnd in French "piou piou" can be used colloquially to mean "bird"... Many languages seem to agree on this.
- balazsdavid987 11y agoIn Hungarian, "pee-pee-pee-pee" is used to at farms to call chicken. :) And sometimes, young woman are called "pee-pee"-s, in a playful way.