Everybody Hurts

James Chapman has told us how sneezes, eating, dogs, and frogs sound in other languages. Now he gives us the lowdown on pain. How do other languages express the sound we know as “ouch”? Learn these, and you’ll be able to offer sympathy when it’s appropriate. Check out Chapman’s works at his Etsy shop.

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I immediately started hearing that REM song in my head...

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The Japanese expression for "ouch" is "itai."

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No one told me to blow in the cartridges. They just tended to visibly collect dust, you would have trouble getting it to run, look in there, and see a lot of dust. Dust is actually not very conductive so I'm not sure why it sounds silly to the guy. I agree that blowing didn't really work better than just reseating though.

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"Prior to the NES I don’t recall people blowing into Atari or any other cartridge-based hardware that predated the NES "
We totally did. On our Commodore 64 too.

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Yup, we blew on our Atari cartridges all the time.

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