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  • Ling. puzzle: Onomatopoeia used by adults is usually ...

    From HenHanna@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 25 13:13:01 2024
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    In English, Onomatopoeia used by adults is(are) usually
    Nicknames,
    verbs or adverbial:

    "The rain pitter-pattered on the roof."

    "After the jog, he was huffing and puffing like ......"

    "He would hem and haw .... "


    Maybe a rare exception (a common noun) is [Flip-Flops]


    In some Euro languages, Onomatopoeia based Common-Nouns are widespread?

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  • From Jeff Barnett@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 25 16:57:47 2024
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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Jeff Barnett on Sun May 26 19:22:47 2024
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    Jeff Barnett wrote:

    On 5/25/2024 2:13 PM, HenHanna wrote:

    In English, Onomatopoeia used by adults is(are) usually
    Nicknames,
     verbs or adverbial:

             "The rain pitter-pattered on the roof."

             "After the jog,  he was huffing and puffing like ......" >>
             "He would hem and haw .... "


    Maybe a rare exception (a common noun)  is  [Flip-Flops]


    In some Euro languages, Onomatopoeia based Common-Nouns are widespread?

    Probably not relevant but "flip-flops", aka go-aheads, is another name
    for a kind of beach footwear with straps, no back of the heel
    constraint, and cheesy soles. There are several theories about the
    origin of "flip-flops" -- note that these theories are not linguistic
    in

    nature, rather, they were developed by amateurs over rum drinks at
    various beach-side bars: 1) from their flipping and flopping while
    walking induced by their less than sturdy construction and 2) from the
    sound of their hitting the ground while walking for the same reasons.

    The origin of "go-aheads" is based on the difficulty of walking
    backwards with them because of the lack of heel constraints.
    --
    Jeff Barnett



    i've not heard of "go-aheads" sandals.

    2 other terms like [Flip-Flops] are Wigwam, riffraff


    wig·wam Origin early 17th century: from Ojibwa wigwaum, Algonquian wikiwam ‘their house’.



    riff-raff == people with a bad reputation or of a low social clas

    late 15th century (as riff and raff ): from Old French rif et raf ‘one
    and all, every bit’, of Germanic origin.

    Etymology. From Old French rif et raf (“one and all”), of Germanic
    origin. The first word is from rifler (“to scrape off”) and the last is from raffler, related to rafler (“to plunder”).


    ________________________


    the unlikely scenario of a slipshod whipper-snapper in a
    wigwam full of bric-a-brac and knick-knacks, listening to some
    wishy-washy hiphop with the riffraff (In his jimjams and flip-flops)
    with a hobo going Hubba-hubba playing hurdy-gurdy --
    -- all this hanky-panky giving me the Heebie-jeebies

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