From personal experience, "Ow" does not sound the same in every language. I was working in a lab in college putting an EEG cap on a woman from Italy, another student in the lab, and I was hurting her but the noise she made to express that was not one I understood as being in pain.
Kethlak t1_j9wriiw wrote
Reply to comment by Mad_Moodin in [WP] The aliens, it seems, do not consider us a sentient species because we are unable to 'keeneetaa'. We still haven't figured out what that means. by limbodog
From personal experience, "Ow" does not sound the same in every language. I was working in a lab in college putting an EEG cap on a woman from Italy, another student in the lab, and I was hurting her but the noise she made to express that was not one I understood as being in pain.