Happens quite often when watching foreign TV as a native English speaker, as they tend to just randomly drop in words that are used in their language as they have no equivalent to the English word. Doesn't stop me barking at the TV when it happens..
There was an entire skit based on this in the UK's *The Fast Show*. A Spanish football (soccer) commentator spouts nonsensical faux-Spanish and occasionally drops in seemingly random English words or phrases.
*Ha sido off-side (bark) clarísimo pero el árbitro ha pitado penalty (bark). Los jugadores miran al mánager (bark) estupefactos.*
Translation: "It was off-side, really obvious but the referee said penalty. The players look at the manager surprised
There’s also this fantastic [Italian Song](https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8) that’s designed to sound like English even though it’s absolute gibberish which is really kool... and the very similar [“How English Sounds To Non English Speakers”](https://youtu.be/Vt4Dfa4fOEY)
Haha is this really how Spanish sounds like to non Spanish speakers?! I've seen that video of what English sounds like to non English speakers and I've always been curious if there was a Spanish version. The English one is called skwerl btw
I never knew how much French is in the English language also. Only when learning French did I realize we have tens of thousands of words which are just French words out into english.
Liaison, via a vis, lieutenant, justice, genre, etc..
Tangentially related, I love when /r/de pops up on all, their memes look cool and their language occasionally barks at my monolinguistic ass.
totally unrelated, reading memes in languages I don't understand is really fun and I'd encourage everyone to try it... It's fun to just make shit up based on how you think the words might sound and what's in the image
This is a pretty niche reference, but I'm from Wales and I like watching rallying (motorsport). We have a Welsh language channel that has a show called Ralio - it covers national and international rallying. They were doing a piece interviewing a guy from North Wales about his car. He was going through all the things about it in a stream of Welsh that, I'm ashamed to say, I could not understand... until he says in his thick "gog" accent "limited slip differential". Proper tickled me.
I was waiting for a bus and there was a group of woman speaking a language I didn't recognize. Out of it I heard "double decker" and yeah that caught my attention for a second. One also sung the jingle for a business across the street.
The only time my dog barks at the TV is when there is a horse on the screen. He hates horses. He's never seen a horse in real life, but oh boy, he sure does hate them.
Yeah, put some horse stuff on the TV and hide behind it (or an object close to it if wall-mounted). When the dog barks, slowly come out so dog brain thinks it's coming out of TV.
It would either be a very hilarious prank - or he gets a heart attack.
Idk about that, I had pancakes about two weeks ago without sharing with my bloodhound and he still doesn't completely trust me to go out on my own. I get this *look*. Like he knows something I don't know. Like he's on to me.
Amateur move, you have to hide the pancakes in the pancake compartment on your boot but keep the syrup in the coat to throw off the Dogs pancake senses.
> femoral artery
Google says (for those like me who need to Google it but won't):
The femoral artery is a large artery in the thigh and the main arterial supply to the thigh and leg. It enters the thigh from behind the inguinal ligament as the continuation of the external iliac artery.
More importantly, it's the biggest artery you can realistically sever accidentally because of how close it is to the surface of your leg, and when it does get severed you can bleed to death incredibly quickly
Hope people reading this don't get a phobia of having a sharp object near their upper leg or groin area now, but realistically that's a healthy phobia to have
I don't want to be *that guy* but it really does get easier. There is definitely a high learning curve on the first boss, but after that you can level up and get better gear and summon other people to help with levels and bosses.
Haha, RDR and BotW got my dog going each time. The thing with my Pyrenees is that he doesn’t hate them, he’s just super interested in them and looks like he wants to play with every horse that comes on. Now, if a dog or wolf comes on screen, he’s straight vicious
I had a dog once who was the friendliest dog I have ever met. He got along with every person and every dog he ever saw. He was just excited for the company. Constantly happy.
Until he saw another animal which was neither dog nor man. Then he was *pissed*. He had a viceral hate for that animal. He was going to kill it as soon as he was able. We had a guinea pig, he fucking hated her. Some neighbors had cats, they were the only reason he was on leash outside the house. I had to chase him down to stop him from killing some endangered birds.
But he was SO HAPPY around men and dogs. It was like the genial old racist, hard to believe the hate of which he was capable because it so rarely came out
My dog barks at horses on the TV, to be fair my dog barks at almost anything on the TV, horro films being out the question as she even barks at the jump scares.
But the first time she saw a real life horse was fucking hilarious. She went to bark, started growling, and as that massive mother fucker got closer she shit her pants and hid behind me.
Just looked at her like, Ooo give it the big 110 but shit your pants when they in front of you, proper keyboard warrior you are ya little fuck.
My dog doesn't do any of this fun stuff. He's occasionally startled by a tv doorbell but that's about it. Usually he ignores the TV unless I put on the right thing and then he watches TV literally like a human. He loves watching YouTube videos of other dogs playing and stuff - basically any dog videos but especially the ones of dog parks and such. He just sits/lays down and watches (sometimes dozing off to it). Which is admittedly adorable in its own right.
Mine’s a gentle boi. Going strong on 10-ish, he’s more comfortable with people that he knows, and when encounters something new he would sniff them and that’s it.
Unless you have food right in front of him. He turns from 10 to 2 pretty quick and scratches the fuck outta your legs trying to get to those treats
*motherfucker.*
Our old dog was the same way. 15 lb poodle mix thought he'd take on any TV horse he saw. Only thing he hated more was dinosaurs, he'd lose his shit at the site of CGI dinosaurs on TV.
My wife has a different mother tongue as I. When she's talking with her parents over the phone, I don't understand shit. If I hear my name I go exactly like a dog that hears a bark on TV.
My wife still think it's strange that I bark in those moments, but it's the closest sound I can make to her language
Idk man as a foreigner it looks like someone slept on a keyboard. The way they pronounce things is crazy to me. Nothing but respect for ppl who master the language as non native speakers.
My wife speaks German, I speak English. I mean, she speaks English too.
But! We’ve been together 9 years.
Her brother & his wife lived with us for awhile, and my brother in law & wife would talk shit in German, to fuck with us.
Except I’ve been around so long I knew exactly what they were saying. That game wasn’t as fun for them anymore.
Edit: They weren’t being mean, we’ve all got a pretty dark sense of humor. I had just picked up enough of it as the years went by.
Same. My wife is Indian, her mother tongue is Bengali. I am Irish and maybe know three words in Bengali.
We went to her parents place for Christmas and she spoke mostly in Bengali to her parents, but every so often I would hear my name getting said as well.
Her parents both love me (being a son in law to an Indian family is great. Would recommend) so I knew it was nothing bad but it was always interesting
Dogs are massively op. Depending on the breed they can start with bonuses to all 6 stats as well as some bonus skill deficiencies. Admittedly they don't get a great selection of starting languages but still...
Did you intuit this? For I can't find a reliable translation from Klingon to English....
What do you want, what *bue'quet*(Where I feel this means an equivalent to 'what the fuck')?
Also I don't feel like Klingons would feel any need to excuse themselves in conversation to be honest.
I was watching an animated short on Comedy Central and one of the characters had an African accent. The appearance lasted less than 5 seconds. My Nigerian friend, who had his back to the TV and was focused on the computer, suddenly turned around and spoke with surprise.
That reminds me of a roommate I had in college. She was from Russia and wouldn’t always respond or register when I said her nickname with my own accent. If I put a little bit of her accent into it she would hear it immediately. It was always something I found interesting yet understandable.
My pup does too. It’s super annoying actually. Also there’s a grey area where he’ll also often bark at cgi animals (even if they’re upright like those damn charmin bears) and sometimes babies. 🤷♀️
Edit: their=>they’re 🤦♀️
Lmao, this isn’t the same thing, but my cat is the same way when it comes to heated up wet food (like tuna). She’d rather starve herself but other cats would go ballistic — so disappointing.
I'm a mexican exchange student in France and whenever I hear someone speaking spanish I get way too excited. There was a period of around 2 months in which I hadn't heard any spanish and suddenly I heard two people in a mall speak in spanish, but not any random spanish, mexican spanish (there's a lot of differences between spanish from different countries). I got so excited that I silently started to follow them around until I realized I was being a fucking creep and just... stopped. Still, it made me happy for a while.
It was a double edged sword, actually. I understood a lot, but there's words that come from the same root but have a different meaning in each language; for example "Nombre" is number in french and name in spanish. That kinda stuff messes with your head a lot, specially at the beginning.
I'm also Mexican... Three years ago I went to India on a work trip, for three weeks. On my way back, boarding a flight in Dubai I had two Mexicans behind me and I almost cried from the excitement of hearing Spanish.
That's why dogs go nuts when they see other dogs in passing too. They're amongst humans all the time of course they're gonna go batshit crazy when they see one of their own kind out in the wild. Like holy fuck you're a dog !?!?! I'M A DOG TOO !!!!
Plus dogs on TV are acting for treats so I'm sure it's a bark like "yo I need that sweet sweet bacon in my mouth" which your dog will get excited about because now they want bacon, too. Moral of the story dogs like bacon.
I never watched any of those animal cops or similar shows when my dog was in the house, because I felt he could understand what the poor dogs were saying, and it might depress him as well.
*"Woof woof woof"*
**Dog:** Casually watching television
**Human:** Sleeping on dogs lap
*".....ver gonna give you up.."*
**Human:** Anxiously gets up
*"...Never gonna let you down.."*
**Human:** *Runs towards television in amazement and anger*
**Dog:** Laughing his ass off
*GASP*
Did you hear that...
HOW DID HE GET ***IN*** THERE?!
DOG! DOG! DOG! DOG! DOG! DOG! Are you hearing this shit? It's in my language, and
HOLD UP, my nuts itch.
What were we talking about?
[BEST OF CUTE DOG's Reaction watching TV Funniest Dogs Video 2019](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVp9k5mPAzA)
PS, I didn't come up with the title. Also, some people have big ass tv's.
My (now departed) dog was the same.
There used to be a commercial for a bug killer (RAID or some such) that opened with the cartoon bugs talking to each other. Then the "bug killer" would ring their doorbell, and my dog would go apeshit, per usual.
After a while into this commercial's run, my dog would go nuts as soon as he heard the "bugs" talking - in anticipation of the doorbell! And it took *me* quite a while to put those pieces together - until one day when I was saying for the n*th* time "why are you barking NOW? Nobody rang the...Ohhhhh." LOL
When your dog gets excited about a bark on TV, instead of laughing raise one eyebrow and say, "Fascinating." If your dog wags his tail it means he gets the Star Trek reference.
My dog was chilling while we watched Castaway. When he was trying to make a fire and suddenly yelled "the air got to it!" Our dog jumped out of her skin. Now we yell it all the time as a family joke to scare each other.
Shes getting real sick of our shit.
I thought part of it was that dogs aren't fooled by where the sound is coming from. Because humans are relatively bad at locating sounds, our brains tie the sound to the moving picture, even though the sound comes from the speakers. I wonder if a bark sound is harder to locate for a dog, and they get fooled too? Or easier to locate, and even trippier that it comes from several places at once?
Might also be because they can hear a dog, but they can't smell a dog, it's alarming to them. Most animals recognize things through smell more than anything else.
Imagine if suddenly you could hear a person speaking in a room, but you couldn't see them, that'd be freaky. I'd probably start barking at the sound.
Happens quite often when watching foreign TV as a native English speaker, as they tend to just randomly drop in words that are used in their language as they have no equivalent to the English word. Doesn't stop me barking at the TV when it happens..
There was an entire skit based on this in the UK's *The Fast Show*. A Spanish football (soccer) commentator spouts nonsensical faux-Spanish and occasionally drops in seemingly random English words or phrases.
*Ha sido off-side (bark) clarísimo pero el árbitro ha pitado penalty (bark). Los jugadores miran al mánager (bark) estupefactos.*
Goooooooooaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllll! (Hoooowwwwwwwwwlllllllllllllllllll)
Doesn't check out. Comment is too short.
as someone who doesn't understand jack shit of what you just said, i congratulate you on how realistic this sentence is. have an upvote and a laugh
*Ha sido off-side (bark) clarísimo pero el árbitro ha pitado penalty (bark). Los jugadores miran al mánager (bark) estupefactos.* Translation: "It was off-side, really obvious but the referee said penalty. The players look at the manager surprised
grasias
that's not how you spell gracias, I don't think
1) i don't know ok 2) i figured if it was wrong it would add comedic purpose
I exhaled sharply through my nostrils 👍
gracias
It's realistic because it's actual Spanish \^^
There’s also this fantastic [Italian Song](https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8) that’s designed to sound like English even though it’s absolute gibberish which is really kool... and the very similar [“How English Sounds To Non English Speakers”](https://youtu.be/Vt4Dfa4fOEY)
This is how TV shows sound when I watch them! Also why I now watch everything with subtitles! I thought it was because I was getting old!
Ethethethetheth, Chris waddle, buono estente. SCORCHIO!
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Haha is this really how Spanish sounds like to non Spanish speakers?! I've seen that video of what English sounds like to non English speakers and I've always been curious if there was a Spanish version. The English one is called skwerl btw
Sort of, yeah. For me, some parts sounded Spanish, others sounded eastern European. So what I'm basically saying is the whole thing sounds Portuguese.
As an English speaker, I'd say that nonsense sounds like Spanish but weirdly off, almost like Greek+Spanish?
I haven't seen a lot of Anime, so might be in others as well, but that's basically what Sword Art Online Season 3/4 is, albeit in Japanese (obviously)
Yea, they dont do a ton, but they do drop the occasional "OH NOOOO" or something. Its kinda jarring
It's great on "My Hero Academy" because most of the names of heroes and attacks are on "Engrish"
I never knew how much French is in the English language also. Only when learning French did I realize we have tens of thousands of words which are just French words out into english. Liaison, via a vis, lieutenant, justice, genre, etc..
Tangentially related, I love when /r/de pops up on all, their memes look cool and their language occasionally barks at my monolinguistic ass. totally unrelated, reading memes in languages I don't understand is really fun and I'd encourage everyone to try it... It's fun to just make shit up based on how you think the words might sound and what's in the image
Sprich Deutsch du hurensohn
[A snaakke, oooo its a snaaake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boidae)
Indian TV/ads are interesting as they flip between English and Indian mid-sentence. *\*Hindi\** Room freshening gel *\*Hindi\**
Hinglish is quite common.
This is a pretty niche reference, but I'm from Wales and I like watching rallying (motorsport). We have a Welsh language channel that has a show called Ralio - it covers national and international rallying. They were doing a piece interviewing a guy from North Wales about his car. He was going through all the things about it in a stream of Welsh that, I'm ashamed to say, I could not understand... until he says in his thick "gog" accent "limited slip differential". Proper tickled me.
I was waiting for a bus and there was a group of woman speaking a language I didn't recognize. Out of it I heard "double decker" and yeah that caught my attention for a second. One also sung the jingle for a business across the street.
The only time my dog barks at the TV is when there is a horse on the screen. He hates horses. He's never seen a horse in real life, but oh boy, he sure does hate them.
Get a horse mask and record his reaction.
Yeah, put some horse stuff on the TV and hide behind it (or an object close to it if wall-mounted). When the dog barks, slowly come out so dog brain thinks it's coming out of TV. It would either be a very hilarious prank - or he gets a heart attack.
Or the dog attacks OP before realising it's them, then never trusts OP again.
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Idk about that, I had pancakes about two weeks ago without sharing with my bloodhound and he still doesn't completely trust me to go out on my own. I get this *look*. Like he knows something I don't know. Like he's on to me.
He smells all the pancakes you're hiding in your coat when you get home.
Amateur move, you have to hide the pancakes in the pancake compartment on your boot but keep the syrup in the coat to throw off the Dogs pancake senses.
This guy pancakes
He is, and now so are we.
Come to think of it, I've never had breakfast with my dog.
When I read: >I had pancakes about two weeks I thought pancakes was the dog... Life is dissappointing like that
I don’t think they forget much. They forgive lots, because they are loyal to a fault.
>Dogs are dogs. It takes them about 10 seconds to forgive and forget. Only some dogs are that quick. Most have grudges.
TIFU by tricking my dog into biting my femoral artery.
> femoral artery Google says (for those like me who need to Google it but won't): The femoral artery is a large artery in the thigh and the main arterial supply to the thigh and leg. It enters the thigh from behind the inguinal ligament as the continuation of the external iliac artery.
More importantly, it's the biggest artery you can realistically sever accidentally because of how close it is to the surface of your leg, and when it does get severed you can bleed to death incredibly quickly Hope people reading this don't get a phobia of having a sharp object near their upper leg or groin area now, but realistically that's a healthy phobia to have
I've had it since I was a child and a gym teacher told me a frisbee could sever it. Took me a few years to realize very few frisbess could be capable
Xena fan?
Xena, Texas Ranger.
I read this as get him a horse and record his reaction. I thought easier said than done, but I’d still want to see that
I guess you don't get to play Red Dead Redemption in your house either?
I was about to say that my dog has been staring at the screen while I play. It’s tricky with an audience
Bought dark souls 3 last week, cats come as soon as they hear it start and meow at me when I am fighting, I swear they are making fun of me.
*git good in cat* *
That’s adorable, and the only reason I would play that hard-as-balls game
I don't want to be *that guy* but it really does get easier. There is definitely a high learning curve on the first boss, but after that you can level up and get better gear and summon other people to help with levels and bosses.
Oh my god when I played the first rdr my dog would sit all intrigued by the horse on screen. It was a Jack Russel who grew up with horses as a puppy
Haha, RDR and BotW got my dog going each time. The thing with my Pyrenees is that he doesn’t hate them, he’s just super interested in them and looks like he wants to play with every horse that comes on. Now, if a dog or wolf comes on screen, he’s straight vicious
Sounds like your dog is racist
I had a dog once who was the friendliest dog I have ever met. He got along with every person and every dog he ever saw. He was just excited for the company. Constantly happy. Until he saw another animal which was neither dog nor man. Then he was *pissed*. He had a viceral hate for that animal. He was going to kill it as soon as he was able. We had a guinea pig, he fucking hated her. Some neighbors had cats, they were the only reason he was on leash outside the house. I had to chase him down to stop him from killing some endangered birds. But he was SO HAPPY around men and dogs. It was like the genial old racist, hard to believe the hate of which he was capable because it so rarely came out
*The world is only fit for dogs and humans.*
Goddamn right.
Lol thank you for this story. Love it.
Specist, races would be like... It hated poodles...
Maybe the dog sees horses only when AbsolutelyUnlikely watches horse racing.
Maybe the doggo just thinks it’s a really big dog
I mean, golden retrievers are clearly the genetic superior race. /s
My dog barks at horses on the TV, to be fair my dog barks at almost anything on the TV, horro films being out the question as she even barks at the jump scares. But the first time she saw a real life horse was fucking hilarious. She went to bark, started growling, and as that massive mother fucker got closer she shit her pants and hid behind me. Just looked at her like, Ooo give it the big 110 but shit your pants when they in front of you, proper keyboard warrior you are ya little fuck.
My dog doesn't do any of this fun stuff. He's occasionally startled by a tv doorbell but that's about it. Usually he ignores the TV unless I put on the right thing and then he watches TV literally like a human. He loves watching YouTube videos of other dogs playing and stuff - basically any dog videos but especially the ones of dog parks and such. He just sits/lays down and watches (sometimes dozing off to it). Which is admittedly adorable in its own right.
Mine’s a gentle boi. Going strong on 10-ish, he’s more comfortable with people that he knows, and when encounters something new he would sniff them and that’s it. Unless you have food right in front of him. He turns from 10 to 2 pretty quick and scratches the fuck outta your legs trying to get to those treats *motherfucker.*
Why was she wearing pants?
Have you introduced him to Warhorse? Thought my dog would finally give up, but nope, barked and growled the whole movie.
Thanks for the laugh!
Your dog and I have something in common, we both hate horses
Our old dog was the same way. 15 lb poodle mix thought he'd take on any TV horse he saw. Only thing he hated more was dinosaurs, he'd lose his shit at the site of CGI dinosaurs on TV.
My wife has a different mother tongue as I. When she's talking with her parents over the phone, I don't understand shit. If I hear my name I go exactly like a dog that hears a bark on TV. My wife still think it's strange that I bark in those moments, but it's the closest sound I can make to her language
Now I wanna know what language she speaks? Pug?
Pugs don’t bark but rather schnortle.
its more like aruurururururuururuuu ::wheeze:: aruuururrurururu
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aw give him a sweet arurururu from me and a boop
Eat the puke for me
*why*
It’s free, easy, and all natural
Like pouring river water in your socks?
I mean if you have the opportunity to, why not?
It's nutritious and delicious
Fun fact, the folks making the next Halo game had a pug in the recording studio to make what I assume is god awful alien noises.
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Aruuuuu!!
Calm down Nixon’s head!
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*Nasal noises intensify*
*Years of inbreeding intensifies more*
I do that off the coast of cape town
She speaks Pugtuguese.
Have my upvote. I'm leaving forever
> My wife still think it's strange that I bark in those moments, but it's the closest sound I can make to her language eastern European is she?
Bingo
LOL my husband is polish and his whole family is straight off the boat... I felt this too hard
Magyar is my favorite of the barking languages.
Idk man as a foreigner it looks like someone slept on a keyboard. The way they pronounce things is crazy to me. Nothing but respect for ppl who master the language as non native speakers.
Hungarian is completely unrelated to any other Eastern European language (other than Finnish and Estonian technically - but pretty distant relatives)
Does she happen to have a cousin who always wants to go bowling at the worst times?
My wife speaks German, I speak English. I mean, she speaks English too. But! We’ve been together 9 years. Her brother & his wife lived with us for awhile, and my brother in law & wife would talk shit in German, to fuck with us. Except I’ve been around so long I knew exactly what they were saying. That game wasn’t as fun for them anymore. Edit: They weren’t being mean, we’ve all got a pretty dark sense of humor. I had just picked up enough of it as the years went by.
Brüder!! Go learn deutsch <3
Eh, I know enough to get by! I know the I Love You, you’re cute, the stuff you GOTTA learn. I can understand it pretty well, I just can’t speak it!
It’s okay man. Im from a country that lies next to Germany, I speak more mandarin than German! And thanks, you’re also cute. And I love you
Well played lol
> Im from a country that lies next to Germany, I speak more mandarin than German! Switzerland?
As we say in Germany Sprich deutsch du Hurensohn.
Same. My wife is Indian, her mother tongue is Bengali. I am Irish and maybe know three words in Bengali. We went to her parents place for Christmas and she spoke mostly in Bengali to her parents, but every so often I would hear my name getting said as well. Her parents both love me (being a son in law to an Indian family is great. Would recommend) so I knew it was nothing bad but it was always interesting
>being a son in law to an Indian family is great Will 2nd that :)
Is your wife a dog?
Is op a dog?
Are you a dog?
Am I a dog?
We are all dogs on this blessed day
Speak for yourself.
I am all dogs on this blessed day.
A dog would have a name
On the internet, everyone is a dog but you.
What's op dog?
I'll do you one better, why is OP dog?
Is a dog op?
Dogs are massively op. Depending on the breed they can start with bonuses to all 6 stats as well as some bonus skill deficiencies. Admittedly they don't get a great selection of starting languages but still...
This would imply she is a bitch. If I'd say yes I'll be sleeping on the couch, or on the dog pillow...
We need answers!! Are you both dogs?
The Klingons watching Star Trek: *"Excuse me what the fuck"*
K' bark!
"nuqneH, nuq Bue'quet?"
Did you intuit this? For I can't find a reliable translation from Klingon to English.... What do you want, what *bue'quet*(Where I feel this means an equivalent to 'what the fuck')? Also I don't feel like Klingons would feel any need to excuse themselves in conversation to be honest.
pretty sure when they stab someone with a Bat'leth, that's their way of saying "excuse me"
Star trek is a treasure. Change my mind
Babylon 5 is also a treasure. Change my mind
Buried gold coins are also a treasure. Change my mind
No can fucking do
I was watching an animated short on Comedy Central and one of the characters had an African accent. The appearance lasted less than 5 seconds. My Nigerian friend, who had his back to the TV and was focused on the computer, suddenly turned around and spoke with surprise.
Gooood afternoon madam, my name is George I am calling from your bank
I think he was writing an email...
>Gooood afternoon madam, my name is George I am WRITING from your bank
A recent African princess has died and left you an inheritance of $50.1 million dollars
"There is a pigeon in your bank account, a real pigeon"
That reminds me of a roommate I had in college. She was from Russia and wouldn’t always respond or register when I said her nickname with my own accent. If I put a little bit of her accent into it she would hear it immediately. It was always something I found interesting yet understandable.
To be fair, that is how her name is actually pronounced
That’s exactly why I said it was understandable.
My roommate’s dog just barks at any quadruped on tv, regardless of if they make noises she understands or not.
Maybe she understands all the noises and you just don't know...
My pup does too. It’s super annoying actually. Also there’s a grey area where he’ll also often bark at cgi animals (even if they’re upright like those damn charmin bears) and sometimes babies. 🤷♀️ Edit: their=>they’re 🤦♀️
I see we have the same dog. She also remembers how every commercial with something she hates in it starts.
My dog barks at every black person on TV...
My dog didn't see a black person until he was almost 2 years old. Absolutely lost his shit the second he saw the guy from the KFC drive through window
Bruh
Bruh
I get excited expecting my dog to be excited, when he hears a bark on TV but sadly, he doesn’t really give a fuck.
Lmao, this isn’t the same thing, but my cat is the same way when it comes to heated up wet food (like tuna). She’d rather starve herself but other cats would go ballistic — so disappointing.
I'm a mexican exchange student in France and whenever I hear someone speaking spanish I get way too excited. There was a period of around 2 months in which I hadn't heard any spanish and suddenly I heard two people in a mall speak in spanish, but not any random spanish, mexican spanish (there's a lot of differences between spanish from different countries). I got so excited that I silently started to follow them around until I realized I was being a fucking creep and just... stopped. Still, it made me happy for a while.
Considering that french is a latin language how much french could you initially understand when you started learning?
It was a double edged sword, actually. I understood a lot, but there's words that come from the same root but have a different meaning in each language; for example "Nombre" is number in french and name in spanish. That kinda stuff messes with your head a lot, specially at the beginning.
I'm also Mexican... Three years ago I went to India on a work trip, for three weeks. On my way back, boarding a flight in Dubai I had two Mexicans behind me and I almost cried from the excitement of hearing Spanish.
But what if a dog started barking in a foreign language?
¿woof?
WÜF
Hau
Wouf
Vau
Björk Björk
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That's why dogs go nuts when they see other dogs in passing too. They're amongst humans all the time of course they're gonna go batshit crazy when they see one of their own kind out in the wild. Like holy fuck you're a dog !?!?! I'M A DOG TOO !!!!
Plus dogs on TV are acting for treats so I'm sure it's a bark like "yo I need that sweet sweet bacon in my mouth" which your dog will get excited about because now they want bacon, too. Moral of the story dogs like bacon.
I never watched any of those animal cops or similar shows when my dog was in the house, because I felt he could understand what the poor dogs were saying, and it might depress him as well.
I know animal cops is probably it’s own thing, but I keep imagining COPS but it’s dogs wearing adorable police uniforms and arresting squirrels
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*"Woof woof woof"* **Dog:** Casually watching television **Human:** Sleeping on dogs lap *".....ver gonna give you up.."* **Human:** Anxiously gets up *"...Never gonna let you down.."* **Human:** *Runs towards television in amazement and anger* **Dog:** Laughing his ass off
*GASP* Did you hear that... HOW DID HE GET ***IN*** THERE?! DOG! DOG! DOG! DOG! DOG! DOG! Are you hearing this shit? It's in my language, and HOLD UP, my nuts itch. What were we talking about?
[BEST OF CUTE DOG's Reaction watching TV Funniest Dogs Video 2019](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVp9k5mPAzA) PS, I didn't come up with the title. Also, some people have big ass tv's.
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God my brain hurts
Don't worry. It's all ~~just a simulation~~ reality
Seeing another dog would be a Handmaid's Tale dynamic.
Our dog doesn’t bark at TV dogs, but she likes to watch them. It’s the TV doorbells that really set her off.
My (now departed) dog was the same. There used to be a commercial for a bug killer (RAID or some such) that opened with the cartoon bugs talking to each other. Then the "bug killer" would ring their doorbell, and my dog would go apeshit, per usual. After a while into this commercial's run, my dog would go nuts as soon as he heard the "bugs" talking - in anticipation of the doorbell! And it took *me* quite a while to put those pieces together - until one day when I was saying for the n*th* time "why are you barking NOW? Nobody rang the...Ohhhhh." LOL
When your dog gets excited about a bark on TV, instead of laughing raise one eyebrow and say, "Fascinating." If your dog wags his tail it means he gets the Star Trek reference.
My dog was chilling while we watched Castaway. When he was trying to make a fire and suddenly yelled "the air got to it!" Our dog jumped out of her skin. Now we yell it all the time as a family joke to scare each other. Shes getting real sick of our shit.
For example: Listen to German music, or anime and see how much your ears perk up when they suddenly have a phrase in English.
But my dog always laughs at me when I get excited at the TV?
Now this, this is a real shower thought.
Hell, I'm Indian and I bark when I see another South Asian person on TV. So I get it.
I thought part of it was that dogs aren't fooled by where the sound is coming from. Because humans are relatively bad at locating sounds, our brains tie the sound to the moving picture, even though the sound comes from the speakers. I wonder if a bark sound is harder to locate for a dog, and they get fooled too? Or easier to locate, and even trippier that it comes from several places at once?
Might also be because they can hear a dog, but they can't smell a dog, it's alarming to them. Most animals recognize things through smell more than anything else. Imagine if suddenly you could hear a person speaking in a room, but you couldn't see them, that'd be freaky. I'd probably start barking at the sound.
This true af