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In anime and Japanese television and so forth, I've noticed that people
confronted with a sudden undesired stimulus, like heat or pain or cold, will
often utter something like 熱っ【あつっ】！ or 痛たた【いたたた】… or 寒【さむ】！, all of which
follow the pattern of taking a word that describes the undesired stimulus and
then modifying it in some way, like clipping it or extending it.

To my English ear, this sounds a little bit unusual, since in English, the
things people exclaim when presented with an undesired stimulus are generally
non-words (e.g. "Aaaah!" or "Ouch!" or "Brrrr") or profanities, rather than
something like "Hot!" or "Painful!". This is the case even in works of
fiction, though of course the exclamations might be more articulate or
exaggerated than one would expect from real life.

Do Japanese speakers exclaim these sorts of things in real life?
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spoken-language interjections
In real life, do Japanese speakers exclaim things like 熱っ！ or 痛たた… or 寒！?
Yes.

But there are many, many variations as you might have guessed.

For example,

あっつっ！instead of あつっ！and so on.

There are also regional differences.

For certain regions in Japan, さむい is spoken さぶい。 So, さぶっ！
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Yes, saying those as the very first word after the stimulus is very common
even in real life.

>   * 痛【いた】っ！ 痛たたた… いててて…
>   * 寒【さむ】っ！
>   * 臭【くさ】っ！
>   * 熱【あつ】っ！ 熱つつつ… あちちち…
>   * うるさっ！
>   * 汚【きたな】っ！
>   * 痒【かゆ】っ！
>   * 旨【うま】っ！
>

We don't say 寒むむむむ or 臭ささささ for some reason... perhaps because they're
difficult to pronounce? And as you can see in the last example, you can
sometimes use this kind of expressions for pleasant but unexpected stimuli.
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When it comes to expressing sudden emotional changes Japanese uses descriptors
rather that onomatopoeia.
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