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How to shake off the demon of convention

What sound does a dog make? If, like me, English is your first language, then your answer is probably ‘woof-woof’. But if you’re Albanian, you’d say ‘ham-ham’; or Balinese, ‘kongkong’; or Greek, ‘ghav-ghav’; or Thai, ‘hong-hong’; or Welsh, ‘wff-wff’. There are almost as many different ways for describing the bark of a dog as there are languages in the world....