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Post by Reba on Apr 3, 2024 3:52:40 GMT -5
onomatopoeias are some of my favorite words. (did all language start as onomatopoeias? maybe.....) i especially love when they are coined for the occasion, or when existing words make onomatopoeic phrases.
for favorites, i always think of Homer first. a famous one is the phrase "doupésen dè pesōn" which translates to "and falling, he thudded." (a person has just been killed.) the most famous is "poluphloisbos", an epithet for the sea which means "much-roaring." it has even been humorously brought into english as the adjective polyphloesboean, or polyphloesbic or whatever.
Euripides also has a great phrase that incorporates "doupos", the word for a thudding sound. in the Bacchae, the sound of drums is described as "doupou ktupou", which means something like "of the din of thudding" (it's in the genitive, which happily enhances the effect.) there's also a variant on the doupō verb - "gdoupō", which is just swell.
in english, i am a big fan of ezra pound's improvisations like
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what are your favorites? they don't have to be literary examples, but those are welcomed.
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Post by soufflé on Apr 3, 2024 8:00:42 GMT -5
boing beep skrrt
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Post by Gregor Anwhistle on Apr 3, 2024 11:17:25 GMT -5
I like "pitter-patter" when used to describe rain hitting a metal surface.
"Clatter" because it reminds me of wheels going over a cobblestone street.
"Bamf" whenever Nightcrawler teleports in the X-Men comics.
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Post by Reba on Apr 4, 2024 1:08:42 GMT -5
well-said. in my opinion, the greatest skrrts ever produced are in the song "For My People" by Young Thug.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Apr 4, 2024 2:25:25 GMT -5
vworp vworp
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 4, 2024 10:39:46 GMT -5
arf
badum tish
ker-chunk
cha-ching
clip clop
hee-haw
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Post by twigz on Apr 4, 2024 12:51:58 GMT -5
french ones for you
cocorico = cockadooledoo snif snif = sniffle/cry gnac gnac gnac = laughing démoniaque brouhaha - apparently it exists in english but idk
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 4, 2024 18:17:52 GMT -5
gnac gnac gnac = laughing démoniaque That one's great, lol. I wonder if in Italy they laugh "gnocchi gnocchi gnocchi"
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Post by twigz on Apr 5, 2024 3:28:26 GMT -5
gnac gnac gnac = laughing démoniaque That one's great, lol. I wonder if in Italy they laugh "gnocchi gnocchi gnocchi" that's gnoc my business
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Post by soufflé on Apr 6, 2024 0:37:18 GMT -5
isnt brouhaha mentioned in asoue
or just argy bargy
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Post by Hego T. Tablespoon on Apr 9, 2024 10:15:20 GMT -5
Poof.
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Post by Reba on Apr 10, 2024 3:21:30 GMT -5
i don't think brouhaha is an onomatopoeia. i like the french words for lisping, zézayer and zozoter.
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Post by Reba on Apr 20, 2024 10:07:18 GMT -5
i just saw Aristophanes write laughter as "aiboiboi" (αιβοιβοι) i've been having fun trying to imagine how a laugh could sound like that.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 20, 2024 18:33:39 GMT -5
my favorite onomatopoeia is onomatopoeia.
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Post by Hego T. Tablespoon on Apr 21, 2024 17:56:21 GMT -5
my favorite onomatopoeia is onomatopoeia. Yeah. However, as for keeping company, onomatopoeia is pretty hard to read though.
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