Words
are truly fascinating. We’ve all known that without words people would not be
able to communicate. And words are learned since childhood, from parents, siblings,
friends then teachers, slowly building a lexicon that allows one to construct
cohesive and intelligent sentences.
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And
discovering new words, even foreign ones is a delight. It somehow bridges the
communication gap, when new and foreign words are added to your personal
dictionary, particularly since globalization makes the world shrink,
figuratively speaking, just a little bit.
Even
if you do not have the patience to learn a new language, or you do not have the
propensity for languages, you would eventually come across words that give you
a vivid impression of things akin to action, color, sound, and movement. These
words are called ideophones. You might not be aware of the term, but you have
surely used some of the words that belong to this category. Though rarely found in languages in the
Western world, ideophones are quite common in several languages of the world.
For specific clarification, the word class in which ideophones belong is called
phonosemantic. It sounds a bit technical, especially for a layman who only uses
words because they are there and universally known, without delving deeper into
word classes, etymology and grammar rules.
