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by joeyoung 4027 days ago
Interesting. I think "pio" is the onomatopoeia for tweet in Japanese too. It's the noise cash registers at Tokyo's Inageya supermarkets make when you use their points card.
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And in French "piou piou" can be used colloquially to mean "bird"... Many languages seem to agree on this.
In Hungarian, "pee-pee-pee-pee" is used to at farms to call chicken. :) And sometimes, young woman are called "pee-pee"-s, in a playful way.