▲ 63 ▼ How different countries and languages represent barking dog sound in words (thelemmy.club) submitted 2 months ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/linguistics@mander.xyz 21 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] kungen@feddit.nu 5 points 2 months ago (2 children) How is voff so much different than woof? It's pronounced like exactly the same. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago Yeah, same for German "wuff". The pronunciation is slightly softer in "woof", but there's no letters you could use to make it sound more similar. permalink fedilink source parent [–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago woef and miauw in Dutch permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago Yeah, same for German "wuff". The pronunciation is slightly softer in "woof", but there's no letters you could use to make it sound more similar. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago woef and miauw in Dutch permalink fedilink source parent
