Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 04, 2015

Spanish: guau-guau

French: ouarf, ouarf. Cats go Miaou, Miaou

what about Andy the chained-up dog? He doesn’t say arf arf

What a linguist Pastis is.

Actually, dogs in Korea don’t make that sound. They go sizzle, sizzle.

Stephan could introduce a Lebanese dog and call him Nelson.

Actually, since dogs are speaking their own language anyway, they really do go “arf arf” everywhere… and at all hours of the day and night… constantly.

Which is probably the main reason the Koreans eat them.

I never understood why dogs are sometimes characterized as barking, “bow wow,” in English. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a dog bark anything close to “bow wow.”

Where I live it’s waf, waf or woef, woef!

One of those non-barking dogs would go – .

What does it sound like in Croc ?

I think “woof woof” is slightly more common than “arf arf” in english… but has the luck of sounding like certain dogs, I’m not sure I’ve ever met one that sounds like “arf”

When I do a dog’s bark, it’s more like “ro, ro”. And it seems to be accurate enough to fool actual dogs.

For kittens I go “yeah, yeah” and they find that convincing too. (You ought to see the reaction when I hiss at them.)

In Norwegian, I tend to see it written “voff-voff” a lot more often than “boff-boff”.Here’s how it’s written in a bunch more languages: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/canine-corner/201211/how-dogs-bark-in-different-languages

Around here, the dogs tend to go with “hau, hau”, or (on rarer occasions), “vuh, vuh”.

NOW who let the dogs out?!?!? Pastis!

Dogs speak all the human languages, but, only to humans that are smarter than them.What’s that you say Rex? You want me to buy some shingles to fix the bark?

mark mark! so shut up!…………..mark mark

It was only a mutt-er of time before Steph went to the dogs!

Even Pig, is smarter than Pastis

Bow wow wow yippy yo yippy yayBow wow wow yippy yayWOOFWOOFwhy must I be like that?why must I chase the cat?nuthin but the dog in me!

Instead of new characters can we PLEASE get the crocs back?

Well, yeah, but what does the fox say?

Sorry – couldn’t resist.

Russian: АРФ-АРФ

Pastis is such a cunning linguist. Sorry, but someone had to say it.

Gee, I thought “cur-sive” was dying out

Cunning linguist………………….Ha !!!!!

bark bark roof roof ahroooooo ahrooooo woof woof bow wow but my boston terrier mostly goes pfffttt out the back end and clears the room

in fact – and i’m not saying this is absolute truth, but according to boston terrier lore – the boston terrier doesn’t have to be vocal at all – if a burglar breaks into your house, all the boston has to do is pffftttt and the gas will knock ’em out thus nullifying the burglary and ‘capturing’ the person for the authorities – once all the doors and windows have been opened. oh and don’t worry about the dog – they simply look at their rear end and then go back to sleep

“But I wonder: how do you say “oink, oink” in those languages?”

With Google available, you don’t have to wonder about things like that any longer. This site, the first I came across, gives a wealth of info on stacks of animal noises:

http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/animal.html

Good one Proginoskes … dogs in Korea go “sizzle sizzle” … made me really laugh for the day …

Hey, what about “woof woof”?

Regardless of what they say, it’s interesting to note the word is repeated (e.g. arf-arf, mung-mung) in each language — at least in the Pearls World.

Wouldn’t a dog in Pearls Before Swine say “pun-pun”?

the new character should be the translator standing by to put pig and rat into all those languages.with a funny multi lingual costume.

The Czech dogs go “haf haf”. We don’t do double f in here. ;)

Did Stephan borrow the European See ‘n’ Say from Stewie?

“Wang Wang”

Hahahahahahahaha!

xxx

Weiner dogs make a sound like my stomach rumbling … maybe that’s the onions, relish, hot mustard, and ketchup.

That’s not what Son of Sam says they say.

From what I know, dogs actually bark like that in foreign countries.

Long, long ago my Finnish buddy showed me a comic book he’d got from “home.” I wasn’t surprised that I couldn’t understand the dialogue, but was surprised when Mickey Mouse took a picture and the camera went “nacks!”

AT your backdoor

Being educated by a “Pearls” strip? Never thought I’d see the day …

(No offense, Stephan.)

I am dog. Worf worf.

Those Norwegian dogs must not be fixed yet. At least we know what’s on their mind.

Woef-woef or waf-waf here.

Hindi: वाँ- वाँ (vaan-vaan)

People just can’t agree on the sound dogs make when they bark.

I have a feeling that Pastis had just learned this fact, and found it so interesting he wanted to make a strip out of it to share it with his readers.