Re: Morphems

 onomatopoeia are word which imitate the sound of the thing they
 describe.
sure, oink, meow, are.
but what about words like "yummy" "eek" "ntch" ?
you cant they that "yummy" imitates a real sound. they are interjections.
we accept short interjections without meaning, but we reject longer
passages of text, and call them nonsense.

the helazoids ( my con-society )
improvise funwords without common meaning, intended to express feelings,
words which "sound" like the actual mood of the speaker e.g. funny, angry,
pleasent, etc. no matter if they imitate a sound or not.
so this is not the same as pure  onomatopoeia's.
and it isnt nonsense, it got its sense. it just got no common meaning.
how would you call something like this ?
just fun-words ? feeling-words ?

regards,
c.s.

NT> Dan Sulani wrote:
>>     Question:
>>     Does this make the English paralinguistic click less
>> "para" and more "linguistic" than in langs where one may
>> express the sound but not directly quote someone else as having
>> said it?
NT> No, as that's simply a matter of orthography.

>>     And what status does the English "tsk", pronounced [tIsk],
>> have? Is it also paralinguistic?
NT> I'd call it onomatopoeia, like "oink" or "meow".

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