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+ posted by njt
in Shout-Outs
on May 28, 2010
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As a translator I know that sound effects can be a bit tricky sometimes and good resources are hard to come by. That is - until this website. Here you'll find a massive list of various sound effects to help aid you as you tackle that next chapter.
If I were to mention anything a bit lacking on the list it'd be the lack of English equivalents to the sounds, not just the definition. Like instead of *cry* maybe waaahhhh or the various other ways one can cry ^^.
If anyone knows of a good resource for those types of sounds perhaps this site can be updated and become even more useful :D. Until then, it'll serve as a great guide to decipher those wacky and often hard to read chicken scratches ;).
So go and check it out! *whooooosh*
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A certain katakana or hiragana can have a different sound depending on what the whole sfx is supposed to be. Like "DoDo---" can be lightning, and "Dokun" a heartbeat, but the "do" in each would sound significantly different when you think about what it should sound like. And then there's whole sfx that overlap and sound different, like "Go---" can be something sinking, or something burning. Of course you usually tell from context, but if not, the way it's drawn can help, unless the mangaka draws sfx extremely simply.
So eventually, that site'll start getting a decent amount of sfx with 2+ (very different) meanings, and maybe pictures could help with that. Or another column on how the different versions of the sfx are usually drawn/stylized.
is another database.
There will occasionally be sound effects just "made up" by the author, so it may be foolish to expect either of these to become complete, but I hope there will eventually be a resource complete enough to catch the vast majority of sound effects that have wider usage.
The following links have some sound effects that are unaccounted for (Japanese only)
http://dbms.kokken.go.jp/nknet/Onomatope/category.html
pages 5 to 9 of http://www.wfu.edu/eal/SEATJ2009/SEATJ09%20Osuka.pdf
@hyperworm: I didn't know about those two sites, thank you!
wow, it's really a nice site! Thanks!