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ポロンポロン……

English translation: warning beep

19:50 May 26, 2011
Japanese to English translations [PRO]
Mechanics / Mech Engineering / alarm sound descriptions
Japanese term or phrase: ポロンポロン……
Alarm sound when the system encounters a minor process error.
Shimpei Shimizu (X)
Local time: 19:42
English translation:warning beep
Explanation:
It might make more sense to add an explanation of the sound (pitch, pattern, etc) instead of looking for something equivalent in English.
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David Gibney
Ireland
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3 +3warning beep
David Gibney


  

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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
warning beep


Explanation:
It might make more sense to add an explanation of the sound (pitch, pattern, etc) instead of looking for something equivalent in English.

David Gibney
Ireland
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 79
Grading comment
Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
3 hrs
agree  Raitei: Yes! Let them experience the sounds for themselves when they use the system, device, etc.
8 hrs
neutral  Yukie Kuwabara: this is a softer, more musical kind of sound than "beep".　"chime" or simply "alarm sound", perhaps?　
11 hrs
agree  Samjay: Perhaps "alarm tone" in that case?
9 days
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