Jason Lee / Reuters Consider the dog. He exists the world over, in various forms and sizes, but his signature sound doesn’t translate all that well. In Swedish, the sound of a small dog barking is rendered as bjäbb-bjäbb; in Turkish, hev hev; in Japanese, kian kian. Imagine a somewhat larger dog, and the words change yet again: to vov-vov, hauv hauv, and wan wan, respectively.