Early morning conversations
Woodpecker: Taptaptaptaptaptaptaptap.
Turkey, irately: Gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble!!
Repeat for an hour.
Is there another, more accurate way, to reproduce this onomatopoeia in writing?
Afrikaans: kalkoen kloek
Albanian: krrull krrull
Danish: kalkunen klukker
English: gobble gobble
Esperanto: glu-glu-glu
French: glouglou (gloo gloo)
Hawaiian: kolokolo
Hebrew: tarnegoley hodu mekarkerim
Portuguese (Portugal): glugluglugluglu
Robert Frostian: kyouck
Spanish: gluglú
Turkish: glu glu
Evidently not.
Turkey, irately: Gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble!!
Repeat for an hour.
Is there another, more accurate way, to reproduce this onomatopoeia in writing?
Afrikaans: kalkoen kloek
Albanian: krrull krrull
Danish: kalkunen klukker
English: gobble gobble
Esperanto: glu-glu-glu
French: glouglou (gloo gloo)
Hawaiian: kolokolo
Hebrew: tarnegoley hodu mekarkerim
Portuguese (Portugal): glugluglugluglu
Robert Frostian: kyouck
Spanish: gluglú
Turkish: glu glu
Evidently not.
posted by magda at 8:32 AM
2 Comments:
I woke up to a 'conversation' between a woodpecker and a turkey on Saturday morning. Much earlier than I would have liked to wake up. And this conversation went on for quite some time. Also, turkeys are freakishly large and scary.
It sounded like the woodpecker was just doing his thing and the turkey had been awakened by the noise and was complaining about it. Volubly.
I meant to share this with you when you first created this post, but Blogger was being mean at the time. As we are now on better terms:
What does a German turkey say?
"Fork-fork-fork!"
Say what? (Ask it to translate fork-fork-fork from English to German for you.)
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