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Why did Ylvis use “go” instead of “say” in phrases like “Dog goes 'woof'”?

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Why did Ylvis use the verb "go" instead of "say" in their song "What Does the Fox Say?"

Dog goes "woof."

Cat goes "meow."

Bird goes "tweet."

Is there some specific meaning for "go"?

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  Note that Ylvis is Norwegian; to me, Dog goes "woof" sounds like a non-native-speaker's approximation of a child's book, not something a native speaker would say – the dog goes "woof" or dogs go "woof" would be OK, but this form sounds awkward.
  
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  @1006a Apparently it doesn't sound awkward to folks in Kentucky: books.google.com/books?id=YSEIPwp0RUsC&pg=PA61
  
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  @michael.hor257k I'm open to the possibility of dialect differences here, but I'm not sure I'd take the lyrics of an old folk song as evidence for what modern Kentuckians would find acceptable in speech.
  
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  @1006a I was being sarcastic. And we are discussing a song, not speech.
  
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Why did Ylvis use the verb "go" instead of "say" in their song "What Does the Fox Say?"

Dog goes "woof."

Cat goes "meow."

Bird goes "tweet."

Is there some specific meaning for "go"?

lyrics

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  Note that Ylvis is Norwegian; to me, Dog goes "woof" sounds like a non-native-speaker's approximation of a child's book, not something a native speaker would say – the dog goes "woof" or dogs go "woof" would be OK, but this form sounds awkward.
  
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  @1006a Apparently it doesn't sound awkward to folks in Kentucky: books.google.com/books?id=YSEIPwp0RUsC&pg=PA61
  
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  @michael.hor257k I'm open to the possibility of dialect differences here, but I'm not sure I'd take the lyrics of an old folk song as evidence for what modern Kentuckians would find acceptable in speech.
  
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Why did Ylvis use the verb "go" instead of "say" in their song "What Does the Fox Say?"

Dog goes "woof."

Cat goes "meow."

Bird goes "tweet."

Is there some specific meaning for "go"?

lyrics

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go

9. Informal To say or utter. Used chiefly in verbal narration: First I go, "Thank you," then he goes, "What for?"

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

Examples that show the usage extends to describing sounds that people, animals or things make:

I fly into JFK

My heart goes boom boom boom

I know that customs man

He’s going to take me

To that little room

from Paranoia Blues by Paul Simon

And the colored girls go

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

from Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed

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  A nitpick: "My heart goes boom boom boom" (also seen in Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill") is really not something someone said or uttered. If a heart or a drum goes "boom" it's just a sound made by an action. I'd suggest your answer would be improved by a different example.
  
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  For your second set of lyrics, I think "Wheels on the Bus" (the horn on the bus goes beep-beep-beep/the driver on the bus goes 'move on back'/the baby on the bus goes 'wah wah wah') would be an improvement on that example.
  
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Verbs with very broad meanings like do or go get the sense of "say" in many languages. English uses "go" to mean "say" in very informal speech. There are children's songs about animal sounds that use it in this way.

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  Yes, for example the "speak and say" toy uses "The [animal] goes:" almost as often as "The [animal] says:" (along with variations like "Do you hear the [animal]?" and "Here is a/an [animal]:"). And of course a stereotypical teenage conversation includes sentences like So then he goes "wait, what did the fox say?"
  
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go

9. Informal To say or utter. Used chiefly in verbal narration: First I go, "Thank you," then he goes, "What for?"

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

Examples that show the usage extends to describing sounds that people, animals or things make:

I fly into JFK

My heart goes boom boom boom

I know that customs man

He’s going to take me

To that little room

from Paranoia Blues by Paul Simon

And the colored girls go

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

from Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed

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answered 1 hour ago

michael.hor257kmichael.hor257k

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  A nitpick: "My heart goes boom boom boom" (also seen in Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill") is really not something someone said or uttered. If a heart or a drum goes "boom" it's just a sound made by an action. I'd suggest your answer would be improved by a different example.
  
  – Robusto
  1 hour ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  For your second set of lyrics, I think "Wheels on the Bus" (the horn on the bus goes beep-beep-beep/the driver on the bus goes 'move on back'/the baby on the bus goes 'wah wah wah') would be an improvement on that example.
  
  – 1006a
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go

9. Informal To say or utter. Used chiefly in verbal narration: First I go, "Thank you," then he goes, "What for?"

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

Examples that show the usage extends to describing sounds that people, animals or things make:

I fly into JFK

My heart goes boom boom boom

I know that customs man

He’s going to take me

To that little room

from Paranoia Blues by Paul Simon

And the colored girls go

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

from Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed

share|improve this answer

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answered 1 hour ago

michael.hor257kmichael.hor257k

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• 
  
  
  

  
  5
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  A nitpick: "My heart goes boom boom boom" (also seen in Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill") is really not something someone said or uttered. If a heart or a drum goes "boom" it's just a sound made by an action. I'd suggest your answer would be improved by a different example.
  
  – Robusto
  1 hour ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  For your second set of lyrics, I think "Wheels on the Bus" (the horn on the bus goes beep-beep-beep/the driver on the bus goes 'move on back'/the baby on the bus goes 'wah wah wah') would be an improvement on that example.
  
  – 1006a
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go

9. Informal To say or utter. Used chiefly in verbal narration: First I go, "Thank you," then he goes, "What for?"

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

Examples that show the usage extends to describing sounds that people, animals or things make:

I fly into JFK

My heart goes boom boom boom

I know that customs man

He’s going to take me

To that little room

from Paranoia Blues by Paul Simon

And the colored girls go

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

from Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed

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Verbs with very broad meanings like do or go get the sense of "say" in many languages. English uses "go" to mean "say" in very informal speech. There are children's songs about animal sounds that use it in this way.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

jlovegrenjlovegren

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  Yes, for example the "speak and say" toy uses "The [animal] goes:" almost as often as "The [animal] says:" (along with variations like "Do you hear the [animal]?" and "Here is a/an [animal]:"). And of course a stereotypical teenage conversation includes sentences like So then he goes "wait, what did the fox say?"
  
  – 1006a
  1 hour ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

3

Verbs with very broad meanings like do or go get the sense of "say" in many languages. English uses "go" to mean "say" in very informal speech. There are children's songs about animal sounds that use it in this way.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

jlovegrenjlovegren

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  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Yes, for example the "speak and say" toy uses "The [animal] goes:" almost as often as "The [animal] says:" (along with variations like "Do you hear the [animal]?" and "Here is a/an [animal]:"). And of course a stereotypical teenage conversation includes sentences like So then he goes "wait, what did the fox say?"
  
  – 1006a
  1 hour ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

Verbs with very broad meanings like do or go get the sense of "say" in many languages. English uses "go" to mean "say" in very informal speech. There are children's songs about animal sounds that use it in this way.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

jlovegrenjlovegren

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