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this reminds me of how people in different languages say "Ouch"

in French, it's ayoye or Aïe!

I would have thought that it was a reflex and that everyone would say it the same way.

by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:16:35 PM EST
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this was the Chinese character of the day:

http://tinyurl.com/4cpxz

by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:44:38 PM EST
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the page won't open but it was the simplified Chinese character for "shit!"

by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:41:55 PM EST
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I am not sure that onomatopoeic equivalents for 'ouch' exist in Finnish. The only exclamation I hear is 'Perkele', meaning Devil. It is blurted out with explosive consonants, fully rounded and with extended trilling of the 'r'. The collapse of anything that was previously going well is accompanied by 'Saatana' - again meaning Devil. The double 'a' can be extended in proportion to the entropy. This is one of those rare occasions when a Finnish word is NOT pronounced exactly as it is spelt.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:31:48 PM EST
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