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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

893.0. "Words derived from their sound" by KAOA12::YUEN (Advanced Flukeware design) Thu Jun 20 1991 22:07

Hi,

I'm new to this conference, so I don't know which note my question fits
under.  Mr./Ms. Moderator, please feel free to move this note to the
appropriate place.

When I can't think of a word, it bugs the hell-out-a-me.  Now I'm in
such a position again:

  There's a name to words which are derived from the sound of the action.
  E.g. Meow, grunt, roar...

I think it's either an "ism" or "nym" word.  Can someone please help?

Thanks,

Duncan.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
893.1		JUMBLY::MCCARTHY		`Thu Jun 20 1991 23:11`	3
	I think your word is onomatopoeia, or onomatopoeic ... Debbie
893.2	Thanks	KAOA12::YUEN	Advanced Flukeware design	`Fri Jun 21 1991 15:19`	6
	Thanks Debbie, I think that is the word. The meaning matches but the word looks totally unfamiliar to me. Maybe it's just been too long since I last saw it. Duncan.
893.3	Sigh...	ODIXIE::LAMBKE	DEC's hip to the standards thing	`Fri Jun 21 1991 18:15`	12
	Hmmmm. . . Ho-hum! Grrrr. . . Whew! Huh? Uhhhh.... Pow! Bang! My 1 year old boy can't talk (at least I can't understand him) but he can imitate a fire engine/ambulance/police: Wew! Wew! Wew! Wew!
893.4	Arf! Arf!	CPDW::SEIDMAN	Aaron Seidman	`Mon Jul 22 1991 20:08`	11
	.3 reminds me of when my older son was that age. He could mimic a dog (among other things) perfectly. One day, as we got on an elevator in a downtown store, he started barking. It took us a moment to understand why, but then we noticed something he had spotted immediately--a lady in the elevator was wearing a fox stole! [For those too young to remember such things. it was a fox skin with the top of the head left on and a spring clip where the mouth would have been. When worn like a scarf, the head would look as if it were biting its own tail.]