Comment by Gander5739

17 hours ago

I think you dropped a word.

It's an onomatopoeia

  • You mean an onomatope (to be pendantic)? In any case, it's not clear to me exactly what you mean.

    • Apparently "onomatope" is a much less popular name for the same thing (e.g. Wikipedia uses my version).

      I mean that the "remove a word" 'symbol' is a 'word' that represents the verb he was trying to invoke, by sounding like it.

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