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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Uulate? #7973 10/15/00 02:48 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 9 San Francisco A awaddle OP stranger OP awaddle stranger A Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 9 San Francisco Is there such a word as uulate? What is the word am I thinking of? Meaning something like the sound of spoken words? Am I dreaming? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Uulate? #7974 10/15/00 04:17 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Awelcome awaddle. I am aware of "ululate", describing (principally) the wail of grieving Arab women; here are a couple of definitions: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2000/08/04.html ululate \UL-yuh-layt; YOOL-\, intransitive verb: To howl, as a dog or a wolf; to wail; as, ululating jackals. He had often dreamed of his grieving family visiting his grave, ululating as only the relatives of martyrs may. --Edward Shirley, Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran She wanted to be on the tarmac, to ululate and raise her hands to the heavens. --Deborah Sontag, "Palestinian Airport Opens to Jubilation," New York Times, November 25, 1998 http://www.bartleby.com/62/45/U1584500.html VERB: 1. To utter or emit a long, mournful, plaintive sound: bay, howl, moan, wail, yowl. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Uulate? #7975 10/15/00 04:54 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 9 San Francisco A awaddle OP stranger OP awaddle stranger A Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 9 San Francisco Thank you, AnnaStrophic. Now I don't need to ululate any further! For your information, I may use this fine word in a poem in which I refer to the monks of Tuva, Siberia, who can produce chords by a kind of glottal magic I envy. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Uulate? #7976 10/15/00 11:44 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Hi awaddle, But do these monks not produce some sort of melody - as monks are wont to do. Ululate is generally used for shrill or shrieking sounds from the throat. I've never really seen ululate used to describe something wondrous. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Uulate? #7977 10/16/00 05:42 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland wsieber old hand wsieber old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland >I've never really seen ululate used to describe something wondrous. < In German there is a saying "one man's owl is the other's nightingale" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Uulate? #7978 10/16/00 09:34 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York ...And one man's Mead is another man's Persian. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Uulate? #7979 10/16/00 10:59 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia P paulb addict paulb addict P Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and one person's 'fish' is another's 'poisson'. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Uulate? #7980 10/16/00 12:03 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York You win my little "post of the day" award, paul. That's hilarious Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter "one man's owl is the other's nightingale" #7981 10/16/00 03:04 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC Who says that? Who? Who? Oh, Florence does. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "one man's owl is the other's nightingale" #7982 10/16/00 08:58 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 ooo not sure Anna...I think TEd is pretty much up there with his who who post. 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