Just a side note –
When you’re dealing with onomatopoeia in class, bringing
in a German comic book, and a French one, etc. can be very useful. The “sounds”
are usually different, and they serve as a good example of how what we *think*
is sound-symbolism, or is memetic, still has a cultural twist to it.
Bill Spruiell
Dept. of English
Central Michigan University
From: Assembly for the
Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott
Woods
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 9:02 AM
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Subject: Re: onomotopoeia
Listmates,
One interpretation of the sound "snicker-snack" is
that it is the sound a snicker-snee (a large knife) makes. Would this
change the interpretation of the term?
Scott Woods
On Nov 25, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Kathi Bethell wrote:
The question of onomotopoeia came up in a class discussion this past week. A student questioned the form class of "Snicker-snack" (as in "the vorpal blade went snicker-snack!"). We moved on to animal sounds, comic book sound effects (Pow! Zap! Kerplunk!) and thoroughly amused and confused ourselves.
The cow says "moo."
The mooing cows moved toward the barn.
The cow smiled mooily (okay, we were goofing off by then).
It's easy to identify the verbs, adjectives, adverbs - but what are the onomotopoetic words themselves? Although moo can be a noun (the cow had a loud moo), what is snicker-snack?
Kathleen Bethell
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