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[ksmith]

If I hadn't watched my first World Cup match yesterday, I wouldn't have known what a vuvuzela horn sounded like.

Comments

[arkessian.livejournal.com]

And don't you just wish you didn't know what it sounded like? It drove me mad, and I wasn't even in the same room as the person watching the match...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Some of the players complained about the distraction, but it didn't sound as though officials were going to do anything about them.

[arkessian.livejournal.com]

It looks like it might be a faint possibility — see http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8737455.stm — but nothing stronger than that.

[jaylake.livejournal.com]

Speaking of vuvuzela, seen this post?

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2380

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it. Seen it now, though. Boy, he sounds annoyed.

Funny definition of the word in Wikipedia.

The origin of the name vuvuzela is disputed. It may have originated from Zulu for "making a vuvu noise," . No kidding. Other descriptions: Commentators have described the sound as "annoying" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants,"[7] "a deafening swarm of locusts,"[8] "a goat on the way to slaughter"[9] and "a giant hive full of very angry bees."[10]

[tezmillertm.livejournal.com]

Now you are educated ;-)