Dick Peavey
November 18th 05, 09:32 PM
Interesting. I've been collecting off and on representations of animal
sounds in several languages. For chickens in English it is
cock-a-doodle-doo; in French cocorico, in German kikeriki. Dogs are bow-wow,
but bao-bao in Spanish.
I've got to start on cats.
Dick
"jingong" > wrote in message
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> In mandarin there is a word "喵" (cannot be showed properly in an english
> OS i am afraid) for "meow" and it has the exactly same pronoucation with
> 'meow'.
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> maybe he will bacome a bilimgual cat.:)
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> "Dick Peavey" > ...
>> He's loveable! And the picture is easy to understand in any language.
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>> BTW, for my curiosity, what is "meow" in Mandarin? In Cantonese?
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>> Dick
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>> "jingong" > wrote in message
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>>> Another pic.
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>>> http://tangwest.net/bbs/UploadFile/2005-11/200511189644811.jpg
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>>> "jingong" > 写入消息新闻:
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>>>> Thanks for your pointers.Yes I have two pictures of him posted. check
>>>> it out.
>>>> http://tangwest.net/bbs/UploadFile/2005-11/200511189123756.jpg
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>>>> The forum is in Chinese...sorry for that. I posted them there because
>>>> that's where i used to go.
>>>>
>>>> I'll keep updating now and then.
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>>>> "cybercat" >
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>>>>> "jingong" > wrote in message
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>>>>>> I live in an apartment and one of my neighbor abandoned a cat when
>>>>>> they
>>>>>> moved away. Now this cat is in my apartment. It's really a sweetie.
>>>>>> But
>>>>> cat
>>>>>> is new to me, so I have no idea how to take care of him(I think it's
>>>>>> a
>>>>> boy).
>>>>>> I fed him sausage and he did not eat much. Yes I prepare clean water
>>>>>> in a
>>>>>> bowl and he drank some. Now I am going to buy something really for
>>>>>> him. On
>>>>>> the list there are cat food and cat litter. I am not sure about
>>>>>> others....Anything else should I buy for him?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> First, post a photo of him! Get him good canned cat food (first
>>>>> ingredient
>>>>> Meat,
>>>>> not by products) and a good scoopable litter, dust free. A nice litter
>>>>> box
>>>>> and
>>>>> scooper. A little brush so you can brush him. Bless you for taking him
>>>>> in!
>>>>> He
>>>>> will surely be your heart's delight for years. (He will need some
>>>>> things to
>>>>> scratch,
>>>>> too.)
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