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[cleolinda]

Okay, y'all, I'm stuck on Titanic and I need help. If I were to transcribe the noise that a dolphin makes, as if it were saying something, what would that look like? I've seen people do it before, and I just can't remember what it looked like. I want it to be onomatopoeic enough that people will read it and go, "Yeah, that's totally what a dolphin sounds like." Any suggestions?




ETA: Let me give y'all some context as to why it has to be specific sounds:

JACK: Ma’am, seriously, I’m begging you. Don’t jump, because I’m gonna have to jump in after you.

ROSE: But—that would kill you.

JACK: See, you’d think so, wouldn’t you? Actually, you’d probably just snap your spine in the fall, and then be left floating in the subfreezing water while vengeful dolphins gnaw your toes.

VENGEFUL DOLPHINS [shaking bloody flippers]: EEEE! EEEEEHEEEH! CLICK CLICK CLICK!



[Vengeful dolphins are from earlier in the parody, it'll make sense when you get there.]

Comments

[sydelbow.livejournal.com]

I've only seen dolphin speak as a load of Eeeeee's, but that resembles excitement.

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

Kind of a gutteral click.

[queenmabwords.livejournal.com]

"kack-kack-kack-kack!"
Or
*random Flipper noise*

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

I'd go with "EEE! EEE! EEE!"

But, you know, I can't even remember what dolphins sound like.

[sydelbow.livejournal.com]

It's very nearly torture, but I've got the sound stuck in my head now. When it reaches ten minutes, I'm going to have to call a doctor.

[riadsala.livejournal.com]

"kik-kik-kik" etc. maybe?

[katla-asriel.livejournal.com]

Um, I'm certain that the EEEEEE is the way to go, though the *random Flipper noise* would work, too.

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

"kkkrrrriiiieeeeeeee" "clik-tch-click-clik-tch" and "dude, Flipper was vocalized by some nitwit with a keyboard, screw!"

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

and I'll have you know I actually did research on that before I wrote it all! (The sounds, not the Flipper part.)

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Crap, did you ever play Star Tropics? That must have the sound. There were dolphins you had to help.

I guess I would go with "EEE! EEE!" Or "EECK! EECK!" Or "SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH! SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH!"

[dimethirwen.livejournal.com]

Love the Hitchhiker reference.

Isn't it more like ....

[(Anonymous)]

eeek, eeek, splash, eeek, sqeeek, eeek?

[centesis.livejournal.com]

You could go with the click click kee kee kee angle.Just my two cents.

[vees.livejournal.com]

On Star Trek IV, the closed captioning when the big whale ship is in orbit is:

SCREE!!

SCREE!!

[sydelbow.livejournal.com]

GOOD LORD THE CROWS ARE ATTACKING

[kittenkatt.livejournal.com]

I've always been fond of "eee-er-eee-er! kickk-klickk-ikk!"

Though [INSERT NOT-FISH NOISE HERE] works too :)

[sweetle.livejournal.com]

If you're Anne McCaffrey, they say "squeeeee!"

[meredith-mae.livejournal.com]

Clearly, that noise is reserved for 13 year old Johnny Depp fans.

[kotszok.livejournal.com]

*evil cackle* ... O_o; lol sorry to be of no help.

[jeisenne.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeettk!

It has to be a nasal squeal thing with a click somewhere towards the end :P

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

EEK-eek-eeek!

[ernie-lundie.livejournal.com]

Yay for more French icons! yay!

[marcusisabadass.livejournal.com]

Watch the first Ace Ventura movie for the part where he imitates the dolphin's trainer. He does a hilarious dolphin impersonation.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Awww, dammit, you're right--that would be great, if I could get the subtitles on, but I have to turn this in tonight and I don't have that one on hand. FOILED AGAIN.

[chocotaku.livejournal.com]

You can always throw in a seaquest joke...

[unexplored.livejournal.com]

I loved that show.

*tear*

Going back to my own little world now.

[sasayaki.livejournal.com]

That was hilarious! And I'm not much help with sound effects. ; ;

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

I have no idea about the sounds, but I have to tell you this made me laugh because I had a vision of the shrieking eels from The Princess Bride slapping around at the bottom of the Titanic, just waiting for Rose to fall in. ;)

[fiveforsilver]

That's what I was thinking, too.

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing at this whole conversation*

I'd said EEEEEECTK, EEEECTK, kind of, personally. I swam with them in Bermuda a few years ago...reckon that sounds right.

[sunihiroku.livejournal.com]

I would say "Ek ek ek ek"

Look at me, I know IPA and everything...but to be fair, IPA only works with all human vocalizations...

[ernie-lundie.livejournal.com]

Did I see Uma Thurman and Audrey Tautou in that icon?

[the_powerlines.livejournal.com]

Only on Livejournal might I find myself participating in a discussion on how to write the noise a vengeful dolphin makes.

The CLICK CLICK CLICK part is vital to the effect, I think.

I just watched Titanic yesterday...and, man, I cannot wait to get my paws on this book of yours. And then I will run around to all my little friends at school yelling, "I semi-online know her!!"

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, this entry gives y'all bragging rights to say, "And I helped her with this part right here!"

(The downside is that anyone you tell is going to be like, "Who?")

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

I can't really be of help, but oh man is the mental imagery making me laugh. "Do you hear that, Rose-- those are the shrieking dolphins!"

Hee.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nymphette_/]

*dies*

Alright, I survived the earlier reference, but that one made me nork!

[newbia.livejournal.com]

EHHK-EHHK-EHHK or you could just rewrite "neigh" with less n's and more e's.