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TIL Every language in the world creates different onomatopoeia for the same animal sound. For example, in English a rooster says “Cock-a-doodle-doo” while in German it’s “Kickeriki” and the way that the word is written and pronounced changes the speaker’s perceptions of the original sound.

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