Talk:Beep, beep (sound)

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One or two things strike me as being somewhat, to use a technical term, arse-over-tit in this article as it currently stands.

"Beep-beep" is an onomatopoeia sound

Onomatopoeia is not a sound, but the formation or use of a word imitating a sound.

Onomatopoeia normally omits any quote marks. The quotes are indicating replication of the sound itself. Hence it is not unreasonable to use the word "onomatopoeia" as a nominal attributive for the noun "sound", in this instance. That said, the entry has been modified and the matter is moot. JohndanR (talk) 21:31, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Chuck Jones, the creator of the Road Runner, has stated that this sound, the only way the Road Runner can harm the Coyote, was inspired by hearing a Doppler-like effect as a worker carrying set backgrounds beep-beeped when he could not see where he was going.

Pace Chuck Jones, surely the sceneshifter was imitating the sound of an electric motor horn (the old, mechanical ones went "parp parp"). That worker must have been moving at one hell of a pace if he created a "Doppler-like effect"!

-- Picapica 11:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Meep Meep

I always heard "meep meep". 128.114.143.68 (talk) 21:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As do many others. Those old horns often had a nasalized quality to them, and as the 'b'-initial in spoken English entails a slight aspiration of air between the lips ('b','p', 'd', 't' etc. used to be aptly named "plosives"), which those old electric horns did not have in the slightest, the 'm' sound is decidedly more representative. JohndanR (talk) 21:31, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Microwave ovens

Microwave ovens make this sound when you are entering or exiting from a hidden feature. 108.71.120.158 (talk) 11:26, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]