[New-Poetry] phraseology

[Anny Ballardini]

Depressing what they say in Italian: bau bau...

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Mark Weiss <junction at earthlink.net> wrote:

>  Years ago I discovered in the pages of Asterix that French dogs say "ouaf
> ouaf." It never occurred to me til this very moment to look at the Spanish,
> German, etc. editions, but I don't have them handy. If an Italian dog met a
> French dog what would it say? What would it say in Turkish, etc.? Anybody
> out there know?
>
> Mark
>
>
> At 07:49 AM 4/12/2009, you wrote:
>
> But the entry I truly cherish is the one instructing the reader on how to
> say "Ouch!" in French ("Aie!"), German ("Au!"), Italian ("Ahi!") and in
> Spanish ("Ay!").
>
>  http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/13/magazine/l-phraseology-166545.html
>
>
>
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