Childish spoken language survey

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  1. Expipiplusone

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    Prior events: I was afk in front of station8 (as usual, lately) when @TheBluePickle thought it would have been fun to bump into me on purpose. Actually it is funny, I found myself in very odd places more than once when coming back, and it was always due to a different user. It's a new sport and sometimes I practice it myself (as long as it's safe and not malicious). Regardless.
    I wasn't actually afk, I was just reading and when I realized what was happening I started to fly and wrote something like "gne gne gne gne": that's what kids usually say when making fun of other kids, like "I'm taller than you and you can't reach what I've got in my hand, gne gne gne!"
    But TheBluePickle couldn't understand what the hell "gne" meant.
    And then I realized that, despite childish spoken language is almost universal, maybe you write it differently. After a little googling and talking with TheBluePickle, I concluded that in English speaking countries you write it more like "na na na!" (or maybe "nya nya nya!"?).

    But what about languages different than English? How do you write it? And does it really sound similar, regardless of the way you write it, as I assumed? Please let me know all of this and your country/language, I'm eagerly curious now :)
    Thank you
     
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    @BuildsByGideon That was binary language, but I think that's what you meant.

    @Expipiplusone Where are you from by the way? When you were saying gne gne gne I didn't know what the hell you were talking about, like you said. Most of the time in America when someone plays keep away from another kid, (like when someone steals your pencil and raises it above your head) they say: "Neh neh neh neh neh, neh" That's what I have heard, anyway. They also say "Na na na" or something like that. Also, how the heck do you even pronounce "gne"? There is no vowel between the consonants so I have no idea how to say that.
     
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    I'm from Italy, and "gn" is a typical Italian grapheme actually. So I was a fool assuming anyone outside of Italy (and maybe a few countries with similar sounds) would understand :D

    To be precise, there's two different phonemes associated to the grapheme GN:
    1. the first one (soft) is a totally new sound (see below);
    2. the second one (hard) is just a hard G followed by an N.
    In the case of "gne gne gne" the sound is the first one. As I said, it doesn't sound like a hard G followed by an N, on the contrary: it is another new sound. It sounds similar to an N, but here's the difference: the normal N is a sound that comes from the frontal palate, while GN comes from the center of the palate.
    Here you can hear the difference between a soft GN and a hard GN (min 2:36):
    But the difference between a soft GN and a normal N is very subtle and you might not be able to tell the difference if you are not used to.
     
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    Yeah that's what I meant lol
     
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    Nany nanay na na?
     
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    You broke Google translate's audio, that's pretty impressive with your Hahas.
     
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    Concerning the original question: I... actually don't know what the German equivalents would be. ;-;
     
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