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Re: water (was:re:sounds like...)

From:Mia/Rob Soderquist <tuozine@...>
Date:Monday, November 23, 1998, 0:30
Herman Miller wrote:
> Actually, I think "aqua" is a pretty good word for "water". Better than > many of my own words for "water" (Olaetyan "itrya", Alzetjan "djelna", > Cispa "tipsic", Jarrda "pean", etc.)
I like "aqua" for "water" too, though I was thinking about it, and different kinds of water seem to bring up different impressions to me... Not necessarily based on the sound they make (a running brook as opposed to the ocean or a faucet, for example), but rather based on the feeling the image brings forth... I nominate "feeling-sound" to receive a word... That *needs* to be a word, meaning the sounds that one associates with particular feelings, senses, or emotions. Water in ea-luna was "raru", IIRC without looking, and rain was "lala"...but those words were randomly assigned meanings. Hmmm... What *is* the sound of an emotion? Mia