and speaking of conversational grunts - or on matters onomatopoeic, I may try some of these animal commands in languages other than English when walking Flo. I like the sound of Fot! for Walk behind me!, although it's not so different from the sound of my native dog-walking dialect.
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Dennis Lillee's nickname is Fot - Flippin' Old Tart. It was bestowed on him by Tony Lock.
Ah, now I understand what Snowy was saying in those old cloth-spined French language Tintin books we had.
All this time I just thought he was drunk. Come to think of it, he did get pissed a lot in the books.
T: Fot is Apt for Mutt.
N: ouah ouah (in a high voice)
I like the Hungarian for Dog (drinking) lefety, lefety...
a sort of 'pet patois' ?
purrfect...
or pawfect...
that may yet become a pet pun, Brownie.
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