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Old 06-11-2009 , 22:24   Re: You know you're desparate to come back on the boards when...
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Originally Posted by BOYSplayCS View Post
Rukia, don't take this personally:

But, what drunk minded moron first said that dogs(hounds) made a 'woof' sound. I have never in my life heard a dog go 'woof woof', and if I ever did I would be wasted off my ass with 15 milligrams of crack in my system.

Dogs don't go woof, pigs don't go oink and owls sure as hell don't go hoot.
The problem is that it the sound is characteristic enough to be recognizable but not sufficiently characterizable to fit into our vocabulary.

tl;dr, dogs sounds don't translate to human words very well.

Also, the French say dogs go "woop", so English got it at least closer.
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