LL-L: "Interspecies Lowlandic" LOWLANDS-L, 26.SEP.2000 (01) [E]

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From: Helge Tietz [helgetietz at yahoo.com]
Subject: LL-L: "Interspecies Lowlandic" LOWLANDS-L, 24.SEP.2000 (03) [E]

> From: john feather
> [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
> Subject: Interspecies Lowlandic
>
> When we discussed this topic I wrote:
>
> >.. dogs speak different languages, like their
> owners ...  English dogs say
>
> "bow-wow". Swedish dogs say "vov-vov". What do dogs
> of other Lowland
> ethnicities say?<
>
> Sadly, nobody replied, but this turns out to be a
> serious matter. My
> Classical Greek textbook says: "Dogs say 'au [alpha
> upsilon] au' and sheep
> say 'beh [beta eta] beh'. This is part of the
> evidence for the
> pronunciation
> of vowel sounds in the 5th century BC."
>
> John Feather johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

In Low Saxon it is the same as in Swedish, it is
wou-wou, this applies e.g. as well to Latvian but the
Russian dog shouts "gaff-gaff" to the children, which
amuses the Latvians a lot when listening to a Russian
family.

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From: $ Elsie Zinsser [ezinsser at simpross.co.za]
Subject: LL-L: "Interspecies Lowlandic" LOWLANDS-L, 24.SEP.2000 (03) [E]

Hi all!

John Feather said: When we discussed this topic I wrote:>.. dogs speak
different languages, like their owners ...  English dogs say "bow-wow".
Swedish dogs say "vov-vov". What do dogs of other Lowland ethnicities
say?<
Sadly, nobody replied, but this turns out to be a serious matter.

I missed your question. In Afrikaans they say 'woef-woef', or 'kef-kef'
for smaller species.

Regards

Elsie Zinsser

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