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Bonus 34: The sounds of sheep, earthquakes, and ice cream - Onomatopoeia
🕑 Added 2019-12-06 01:28:22 +0000 UTCWe all know cows go 'moo', sheep go 'baa' and ducks go 'queck'... well medieval English ducks did. Dutch cows go 'boe' /bu/ and Korean sheep go 음매 (eum-mae). What is it about sounds that make a sheep sound like a sheep, and how can the name of an ice cream flavour make it sound more delicious?
In this bonus episode of Lingthusiasm, Lauren tests Gretchen on Syuba onomatopoeia, Gretchen quizzes Lauren about good names for different products as we explore ideophones, sound symbolism and their role in understanding the world.
Here are the links mentioned in this episode:
- New Lingthusiasm merch!
- Onomatopoeia (Wikipedia)
- Ideophones (Wikipedia)
- Syuba dictionary
- Queck (tweet)
- Bleat (Etymonline)
- Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias (Wikipedia)
- 3 Misconceptions about Ideophones (Mark Dingemanse)
- Ice Cream and Crackers
- Detal, Dutal and marketing with sounds
- Lingthusiasm Episode 21: What words sound spiky across languages? Interview with Suzy Styles
You can listen to this episode on this page, via the Patreon RSS or download the mp3. A transcript of this episode is available as a Google Doc. Lingthusiasm is also on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter. Email us at contact [at] lingthusiasm [dot] com or chat to us on the Patreon page.
Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at All ThingsLinguistic. Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.
Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our audio producer is Claire Gawne, our editorial producer is Sarah Dopierala, our editorial manager is Emily Gref, and our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.
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Thanks for letting us know! It's been update and you should be able to access the correct transcript now
The transcript linked to this episode is for bonus 23, not 34.
John MacDonald
Weirdly one of the made up words is used for a brand of cleaning & anticeptic products in the UK called Dettol
