Re: ONOMATOPOEIA: Check out "Cross Linguistic Phonethemes"
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 31, 2002, 17:42 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> And the fact that words are arbitrary makes things so much more fun! Wouldn't
> it be boring if all humans connected the same sound to the same concept?
Well, it is true that certain sounds have a tendency towards certain
connotations, like /i/ tending to denote smallness, nearness, etc., and
/u/ or /A/ the opposite. But, those are only statistical tendencies,
frequently violated, as in "big" or "small" :-)
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