The balido is the sound emitting various animals such as sheep, the sheep, the deer and goats. The action of giving bleating is known as bleating.
With regard to the etymology of the term bleating, especially if we think about the sound that sheep and goats make, it is correct to say that the first part arises from the way we understand it (“baaaaa”) and that it joins the suffix -ido, used to describe a quality that we can perceive through the senses.
For example: “The bleating of the sheep scared the children, who ran to hide between their mother’s legs”, “Did you hear those bleats? I think there deer fence “, ” The bleating of goats, geese honking and mooing of cows put music our field afternoon “.
It is important to note that bleating, the voice of these animal species, is written with B. Instead, the term refers to a conjugation of the verb assert is valid with V. Bleat and valid, therefore, are homophone words (they have the same sound, although their spelling is slightly different and they have different meanings).
“The judge decided that the triple was not valid since the launch was made outside the regulation time” is an expression that uses the concept of valid. In the case of valid, with a check mark in the A, it is also written with V: “The judge decided that the triple was not valid since the launch was made outside of regulation time.
Therefore, we must bear in mind that when we wish to refer to the sound emitted by an animal bleating always be written with B. Instead, the rest of the words that sound like this word but refer to other issues, are written with V. If in doubt, it is best to go to a dictionary to ensure the correct spelling.
In the field of opera, it is common to use the concept of bleating to describe a singer’s voice in a disparaging way, especially if it tends to mark a lot its vibrato (the undulating effect of the sound that certain instruments produce to intensify or enrich the performance and improve tuning). More specifically, a voice is said to resemble a bleat in coloratura passages in which many notes are sung at high speed if the artist generates an unpleasant and unnatural sound.
Like other nouns that represent the sounds that animals make, the concept of bleating can be useful to teach young children to distinguish between different species using their sense of hearing. However, it is important to note that there is a great distance between onomatopoeia and the true voices of animals, in the same way that cartoons are not faithful to their shapes or colors: the goat does not say “baaaa” exactly, as do all the Cows are not black with white spots, nor are pigs pink.
On the other hand, in each country the voices of animals are conceived in a different way, since they must be adapted to the possible sounds to represent in each language. This is also the case with foreign words, since the general tendency in most countries is to reproduce them using the letters of their own alphabet, something that can only lead to a lack of precision.
If we add the anatomical differences between us and the balancing animals to the fact that we do not know “what they say” or how many messages they can emit, we understand that there is no use approaching them and trying to imitate them, believing that they will recognize our sounds as part of their language.
