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Your favorite Gitaigo / Giongo? - Musashi - 2009-07-17
Every language has its own onomatopoeic expressions but Japanese steps it up by having sounds for things like staring and blinking which makes Japanese quite unique.
Any favorite Gitaigo/Giongo you guys want to share?
Mine:
How does a falling leaf or feather sound in Japanese? ヒラヒラ
Cute chick at 12 o'clock, the staring 'sound': じっと
Megan Fox at 12 o'clock! じ〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜っと
Even babies have their own sound when crawling: はいはい(する)
You deserved to be slapped! In order from light slap to hard smack:
パン
パシン!
バン!!
バシン!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*example of a バシン!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your favorite Gitaigo / Giongo? - Burritolingus - 2009-07-17
ざわ・・・
ざわ・・・
ざぁーわぁー・・・
Your favorite Gitaigo / Giongo? - Jarvik7 - 2009-07-17
I've always somewhat disliked it...
Your favorite Gitaigo / Giongo? - Musashi - 2009-07-17
Jarvik7 Wrote:I've always somewhat disliked it...real~~~~~ly? Whyz that?
Your favorite Gitaigo / Giongo? - methanol - 2009-07-18
シコシコ
Your favorite Gitaigo / Giongo? - Tobberoth - 2009-07-18
Jarvik7 Wrote:I've always somewhat disliked it...Me too. IMO, it's quite a sloppy way of speaking... as if they don't have real words for things, so they just mimic the sounds. Japanese having such a huge amount of words and such a modular system with kanji shouldn't really be going in that direction.
I mean, imagine it in English. "The donki donki came over blenki blenkibly so it senka senka'ed!"
It's quite horrible.