spelling of sounds.....

zooom · October 12, 2011, 12:44:16 PM

another thread in our local forum spawned the thought of this thread, so here it is...

I can't even begin to think of how to spell the sound of a wookie howl...but if you were going to spell out how something sounded...how would you do it...

easy example...

air escaping the valve stem of your bicycle

FFFFFFFFFffffffffffffffff-ssssssssssshshhshhshshsshhshshhhhhuuuuuu

spolic · October 12, 2011, 12:57:17 PM

..............................

^ That's the sound of a failed thread.

I kid!

It's hard to convert sound into text. I guess that's why they came up with metaphors. Of coures comic books have been doing it for years, POW!

VisceralReaction · October 12, 2011, 01:06:19 PM

a wookie is as hard as spelling a good rumble fart with snaps at the end.
but we can all imagine the sound of a fart spelled pffft.
are we this bored today?

kopfjÃ¤ger · October 12, 2011, 01:09:01 PM

Onomatopoeia

IZ · October 12, 2011, 08:38:06 PM

"Spelling of sounds" Errr..you mean like phonology?

You were actually talking about transcribing Chewy?! D*mn zooom..you're making the SW fans look as bad as the trekkies!!
I'm sure some geek phonology professor has done it though.

As an SLP, a portion of my job includes phonetically transcribing speech..articulation errors and all. Some of the sounds the kids vocalize can make things challenging. Transcribing Chewbacca can't be too hard though..insert a string of diphthongs.."VVVVVVVVV-VVV-VVV". It seems like he does form an occasional consonant. Reading the transcription back though would be difficult because the of the inflection. One might not sound like a real wookie.

ungeheuer · October 13, 2011, 05:05:06 AM

spelling the sound your bike makes when it rolls of the side-stand goes something like this...

F U C K

zooom · October 13, 2011, 05:08:04 AM

Quote from: ungeheuer on October 13, 2011, 05:05:06 AM
spelling the sound your bike makes when it rolls of the side-stand goes something like this...

F U C K

hahahahahahahahaaa

too f'in true though!

RAT900 · October 13, 2011, 06:57:45 AM

the spelling of sounds is often better than the smelling of certain sounds

ManaloEA · October 13, 2011, 07:33:01 AM

Quote from: ungeheuer on October 13, 2011, 05:05:06 AM
spelling the sound your bike makes when it rolls of the side-stand goes something like this...

F U C K

Ddan · October 14, 2011, 03:07:34 PM

Pew pew pew

IZ · October 14, 2011, 05:53:23 PM

Oooh..fook me!!

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