Got it! onomatopoeia
Doreen Simmons
What sound would you use for a man saying "Got it!" and bringing the side of his fist (i.e. little finger at the bottom)
onto the table? In other words, what sound does the fist make? (in English)
Doreen Simmons
jz8d...@asahi-net.or.jp
Adam
Fred Uleman
Note that we could also say he banged his fist on the table, but I don't think we would represent the actual sound with "bang."
FWIW
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Fred Uleman, translator emeritus
Carl Freire
>Bam.
>
>Note that we could also say he banged his fist on the table, but I
>don't think we would represent the actual sound with "bang."
That's not to say you couldn't, though. "Ensign Chekhov brought his
fist down with a bang and said, 'Kwaptain, we goht heem!'"
Enterprisingly,
Carl
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Carl Freire
carlpfreire /[@]* ybb.ne.jp
cfreire /[@]* ix.netcom.com
Tokyo, Japan
Doreen Simmons
I think "Bam" works for me. I get a second chance when the original translator gets back to me.
Doreen not into anime!
>Bam.
>
>Note that we could also say he banged his fist on the table, but I don't
>think we would represent the actual sound with "bang."
>
>FWIW
>
>--
>Fred Uleman, translator emeritus
Doreen Simmons
jz8d...@asahi-net.or.jp
Fred Uleman
Adam
Adam
Michael Hendry
> Bam.
Perhaps the great Don Martin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Martin) would
agree. (I know I do.) I remember growing up and reading MAD Magazine; I was
always fascinated at how many interesting ways there were to write the
sounds around us. A guy called Doug Gilford has put together a dictionary of
many MAD sounds here:
http://madcoversite.com/dmd-alphabetical.html
"BAM-BAM BAM BAM BAM Prisoners Pounding Fists On Dining Table MAD #67,
December 1961, Page 48"
Michael Hendry, in Newcastle Australia
Fred Uleman
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Fred Uleman, translator emeritus
Richard Sadowsky
AAAAGH! EEEEEOOOW ACK!
UGH UGH MMP AGH! AEEK Removal Of A Deep Rooted Tooth
hahahaha
At 7:29 PM +1100 02/16/10, Michael Hendry wrote:
>
>http://madcoversite.com/dmd-alphabetical.html
>
>"BAM-BAM BAM BAM BAM Prisoners Pounding Fists On Dining Table MAD #67,
>December 1961, Page 48"
--
Richard Sadowsky, Awajishima
Roland Hechtenberg
> What sound would you use for a man saying "Got it!" and bringing the side of his fist (i.e. little finger at the bottom)
> onto the table? In other words, what sound does the fist make? (in English)
Bang your (his/her) fist.
Have fun,
Roland
Marc Adler
What sound would you use for a man saying "Got it!" and bringing the side of his fist (i.e. little finger at the bottom)
onto the table? In other words, what sound does the fist make? (in English)
I think this is one of those things that you can think yourself into a hole over, trying to find the exact sound, even though you'd probably accept anything from boom to bam to bang when reading, without finding it unnatural.
--
Marc Adler
http://www.linkedin.com/in/adlerpacific
Warren Smith
emotion as well, and also a description of the action.
To my ear, "thud" implies a non-elastic impact involving plastic
deformation. From a physical perspective, this means that the energy has
dissipated, and the action is over (nothing "zinging" away from the impact).
Hence there is a feeling of finality. If the "banging" of the first means
that something is over, then "thud" would be good.
"Bam" on the other hand, is very energetic, often at the BEGINNING of a
series of physical actions. It is the sound of a plastic collision, where
the energy is redirected. If the emotion being conveyed by the banging of
the fist is a resolution to start on an action, then "Bam" might be a good
choice. "Bang," to my ear, sounds like a pseudo-onomatopoeiaic word, that
has become a verb meaning "to produce a sharp, percussive tone," but not
really representing the sound of that tone, so I would agree with Fred and
might avoid that word, despite the fact that "banging his fist against the
table" is a perfectly good expression.
Back to work. <sigh>
Warren
Doreen Simmons
settled for 'Bam'. The point was, the man in the cartoon was satisfied
that he had solved his problem, thinking "Got it!" and triumphantly
bringing his fist down on the table. It was given the sound effect
"Pong!" which is maybe all right in Japanese but definitely doesn't
cut it in English. Thanks for a pleasant kuchi-naoshi.
Doreen, back to Nagatacho....
On 2010/02/16, at 17:29, Michael Hendry wrote:
> From: "Fred Uleman" <ful...@gmail.com>
>
>> Bam.
>
> Perhaps the great Don Martin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Martin)
> would
> agree. (I know I do.) I remember growing up and reading MAD Magazine;
> I was
> always fascinated at how many interesting ways there were to write the
> sounds around us.
>
Doreen Simmons
jz8d...@asahi-net.or.jp
Lawrence Rogers
Larry Rogers
> Bam.
>
> Note that we could also say he banged his fist on the table, but I don't think we would represent the actual sound with "bang."
>
> FWIW
Benito Cachinero
This, as ever, confirms my belief that Beetle Bailey is not a funny comic.
Benito Cachinero
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Lawrence Rogers wrote:
> Not that any corroboration is needed, but today's Beetle Bailey comic strip has Sarge trying to buy a snack from a vending
> machine.
> ￜ
> ￜￜￜ Panel One: Darn this machine! It keeps rejecting my dollar!
> ￜ
> ￜￜￜ Panel Two: (He hits the machine) BAM!
> ￜ
> ￜￜￜ Panel Three: (A half-dozen snacks pop out of the machine) I hit the jackpot!
> ￜ
> Now back to the op-ed page.
>
> Larry Rogers
>
> > Bam.
> >
> > Note that we could also say he banged his fist on the table, but I don't think we would represent the actual sound with
> "bang."
> >
> > FWIWￜ
> > Fred Uleman, translator emeritus
>
>
Fred Uleman
the man in the cartoon was satisfied that he had solved his problem, thinking "Got it!" and triumphantly bringing his fist down on the table.
the more I wonder if we even need to express that with a sound word. Why not just an exclamation mark? That's the sound: an exclamation mark.
Nora Stevens Heath
> That's the sound: an exclamation mark.
You mean, a bang?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark#Computers
Nora
what goes around...
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Doreen Simmons
Doreen surfacing briefly
Doreen Simmons
jz8d...@asahi-net.or.jp
Sarah Alys
issue with an exclamation mark is that it depends on the English-
language publisher whether that's allowed; some manga/cartoon
publishers replace the Japanese SFX with painted English (! would be
okay), some leave the SFX there in kana and gloss it underneath with
English (! not okay), and some leave the SFX untouched and have an
index in the back (! probably still not okay). So if you haven't
received specific guidelines about this, you may want to at least give
"bam!" as an alternate in a note.
Alys