← Back to context Comment by SonOfLilit 1 day ago It's an onomatopoeia 5 comments SonOfLilit Reply Gander5739 1 day ago You mean an onomatope (to be pendantic)? In any case, it's not clear to me exactly what you mean. SonOfLilit 20 hours ago 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.Birds chirp, bees buzz, moderators, toilets flush. Gander5739 20 hours ago Apologies if I'm being totally thick, but you're saying the lack of a word is acting as an onomatope (or an onomatopoeia if you prefer)? 1 reply → tosti 20 hours ago Someone accidentally the whole thing.
Gander5739 1 day ago You mean an onomatope (to be pendantic)? In any case, it's not clear to me exactly what you mean. SonOfLilit 20 hours ago 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.Birds chirp, bees buzz, moderators, toilets flush. Gander5739 20 hours ago Apologies if I'm being totally thick, but you're saying the lack of a word is acting as an onomatope (or an onomatopoeia if you prefer)? 1 reply → tosti 20 hours ago Someone accidentally the whole thing.
SonOfLilit 20 hours ago 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.Birds chirp, bees buzz, moderators, toilets flush. Gander5739 20 hours ago Apologies if I'm being totally thick, but you're saying the lack of a word is acting as an onomatope (or an onomatopoeia if you prefer)? 1 reply →
Gander5739 20 hours ago Apologies if I'm being totally thick, but you're saying the lack of a word is acting as an onomatope (or an onomatopoeia if you prefer)? 1 reply →
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.
Birds chirp, bees buzz, moderators, toilets flush.
Apologies if I'm being totally thick, but you're saying the lack of a word is acting as an onomatope (or an onomatopoeia if you prefer)?
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Someone accidentally the whole thing.