Haha, glad you enjoyed those. I sometimes wonder about the vastly more numerous onomatopoeia in Japanese manga, and how much authors are able to invent new ones to suit their need with readers able to understand and accept it or if they're all relatively "standard". Like if we were to make up new ones in English, would readers get it? But also, the seeping and trickling in this case are tough to come up with onomatopoeia for since they're silent.
Yes, fascinating topic. I think the richness of Japanese onomatopoeia comes not only from the Japanese language but from the language of Japanese comics, developed over decades and literal tonnes of volumes, and the more they have the more they can iterate. I have no doubt they could pull off “seep” and “trickle” without too much reinvention (though I don’t know it off the top of my head). They don’t even limit themselves to things that can be heard - emotions can also have onomatopoeia which makes them more than mere sound effects.
Embarrassingly, the only English onomatopoeia I can think off that have similar richness are probably those used for punching or explosions. I remember reading a scene where a bathroom blows up and the sound effect was “BA-THROOOOM”.
Seep and trickle! The versatility of this medium.
Haha, glad you enjoyed those. I sometimes wonder about the vastly more numerous onomatopoeia in Japanese manga, and how much authors are able to invent new ones to suit their need with readers able to understand and accept it or if they're all relatively "standard". Like if we were to make up new ones in English, would readers get it? But also, the seeping and trickling in this case are tough to come up with onomatopoeia for since they're silent.
Yes, fascinating topic. I think the richness of Japanese onomatopoeia comes not only from the Japanese language but from the language of Japanese comics, developed over decades and literal tonnes of volumes, and the more they have the more they can iterate. I have no doubt they could pull off “seep” and “trickle” without too much reinvention (though I don’t know it off the top of my head). They don’t even limit themselves to things that can be heard - emotions can also have onomatopoeia which makes them more than mere sound effects.
Embarrassingly, the only English onomatopoeia I can think off that have similar richness are probably those used for punching or explosions. I remember reading a scene where a bathroom blows up and the sound effect was “BA-THROOOOM”.
Oh interesting, I didn’t know that about emotion onomatopoeia!
lol that’s hilarious about the bathroom explosion. Alright, I will push the audience with more new sound effects when opportunities arise.
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Thank you
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