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prokopetz

Do you ever wonder if the reason that different cultures have such wildly different onomatopoeias for the noise a cat makes is that cats have regional accents?

mistakescontinuetobemade

Actually, they do.

There’s a lot of evidence that animals have regional accents. Both birds and sperm whales in fact to vocalise differently depending on where they grew up.

As for felines themselves, there’s an ongoing study underway on at Lund University precisely about this.

As a phonologist who has watched entirely too many cat videos on the internet, I can confirm that cats of differing countries do have differentiated accents in their cries. Felines in England tend to have shorter, lower “mow” whereas Japanese cats do tend to make glides into high vowels, and are sustained longer, such as the ubiqutous use of “nyaaaan” in Japanese onomatopoeia.

Hope this helps.

baloomba

Yeah, people is more interested in knowing if cats have accents than finding cancer’s cure, lol

chatchevalier

This just in: linguists and chemists apparently have the same field of study

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leupagus: “startrekdescribed: “fatfemmearoorc: “HAPPY FUCK OR DIE FRIDAY” [Image description: a black and white image showing Kirk and Spock from Star Trek: The Original Series. Both are pointing at a sign that says, “Pon Farr Night Fridays” on big...
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HAPPY FUCK OR DIE FRIDAY

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[Image description: a black and white image showing Kirk and Spock from Star Trek: The Original Series. Both are pointing at a sign that says, “Pon Farr Night Fridays” on big capital letters /end image description]

leupagus

So this is the main issue I have with image descriptions, which is that a very, very obviously photoshopped picture was not described as a very, very obviously photoshopped picture. And thus anyone who’s relying on grassroots image descriptions isn’t getting nearly enough information.

This is the original:

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Which is exactly the same as the first picture, but instead says “Join the change-in Fridays” on the sign and was a promotion for their second season. This is very important context of the photoshopped image, because it’s been altered in order to tell a joke! A joke that was obvious (or… should have been) to people who could see the image! A funny joke!

But because image descriptions are just random people on the internet explaining what they see, and moreover prioritizing what they think is important about an image, there’s still a big disconnect.

star trek also the problem with image descriptions on this site is that most of you are bad at them and do them in a way that doesn't actually increase accessibility
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