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by jameshart 783 days ago
Careful... it's a little too easy to ascribe things like that to a superficial cultural trait.

English has a huge variety of terms for extreme tiredness: whacked, bushed, wiped out, worn out, drained, burned out, beat, knackered, fried, shattered, frazzled, zonked... must be the puritan work ethic or something.

We've even got a few onomatopoeia of our own: feeling kinda.. ugh.. meh... bleugh... I mean, whew, yeesh. Just... phew.

Maybe being tired is just the global human condition.

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It may be due to Protestant work ethic, no idea, but non of the English words you cited are actual onomatopoeias
Well, ぐたぐた, へとへと and よたよた aren't exactly onomatopoeias either.
Not to mention "sigh", which I find impossible to say without also sighing.