Bang!

That's the sound guns make. Bangbang! Or boom! But not Indonesian guns. They go duar! Or dorr!

And so on for other sounds of punching, swishing, hitting, treading, thumping etc. In English, if you punch or hit someone or something, you go pow or kerpow! Or wham! Or whack! But if you're Indonesian, you go ciaaat! or gubrak!

I am looking at an Indonesian version of a manga comic (Legend of the Dragon). Swishing balls go wuss. A crunching giant boot goe

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