• SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    I believed the tweet for a second, but then I remembered all the times I have woken in middle of the night with the gangs of cats outside my street just meowing to each other

    Edit: I am wrong, I looked up Yowling and that’s definitely what I heard, not meowing.

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      6 months ago

      Those cats on the street are not meowing, they are yowling. That’s a holler to intimidate or to fight, over a territory or hot ladies. That’s not a meow for a human to fill the food bowl or give scritches or something else tame and domestic.

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        6 months ago

        it’s honestly ever so slightly worrying that people would think yowling and meowing are the same thing, they can be sorta similar sure but yowls literally sound like a human voice and are slightly unnerving because of it.

        It’s like a parent thinking a baby’s laughter and screaming are the same thing, that’s… not a good sign…

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      6 months ago

      Maybe “meow” is cat language for “filthy peasant”, so they’re using it to insult each other and to address us.