Blog 6- Sounds of Language

We spoke briefly in class about when one gets hurt in English, you exclaim "OWW!", but what do other people say in other languages?

This is a cute cartoon drawing of the different sounds people make in other languages from kissing, eating and drinking to the sounds dogs, cats or pigeons make.

I thought it was pretty interesting because I did know that some of those words would be different, but what surprised me was the animal sounds. When we make animal sounds, we imitate what that animal sounds like to us, so I thought it was interesting to see how different language interpret those same sounds into different words.

Sounds in other Languages

Blog 5- Ambiguity

Ambiguity Board Game

I found this board game called "Ambiguity". It is played with regular 6-sided dice that have different letters on the different sides. When the dice are rolled, you are supposed to look at the dice from many different angles to see which different letters you can see and make as many words as you can from those letters. The player with the most words created wins the game.

I like the idea of this game because we talked about the ambiguity of sentence structure, but never  really talked about the ambiguity of the letters in the English language. When looked at from different angles, many of the letters could be perceived as other letters.