Re: ONOMATOPOEIA: Check out "Cross Linguistic Phonethemes"
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 2, 2002, 16:57 |
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Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
> I really can't understand why people can't accept that the sign is
> mostly arbitrary
Hmm. I absolutely agree with this, but I wonder about its cultural
embeddedness. It is certainly not a basic belief of American culture;
Christophe, would you say that ordinary (e.g. non-lingweenie)
French people believe it?
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