waiting for my days work to render...

R.J.Dubya · Post by **R.J.Dubya** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:23 pm

"Misunderestimated" -G.W.Bush

Also, I personally don't mind the sound of the word 'music'. So you think it should be onomatopoeia? Something like 'Ladida' or doodidoo' ?

b0unce · Post by **b0unce** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:32 pm

R.J.Dubya wrote: Also, I personally don't mind the sound of the word 'music'. So you think it should be onomatopoeia? Something like 'Ladida' or doodidoo' ?

lol

digitalkettle · Post by **digitalkettle** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:35 pm

Lo-Fi Massahkah wrote:
peeddrro wrote:there's a word for words that are "self-explanatory".
I think it'd onomatopoetic - I heard it on the radio the other day. Like "crash", "honk" or "ring".

Yep, found it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia

-M

Close but 'onomatopoeia' *only* pertains to sounds

I once dreamt up 'onamorph': a noun whose 'word-shape' resembles the object itself...erm...like 'bed', 'tap', 'submarine'...make sense at all?
Yeah, it never caught on

jaffadj · Post by **jaffadj** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:08 pm

what about 'abbreviation'
supposed to mean a shortened version of a word
not that short for a word describing shortness (?)

conny · Post by **conny** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:33 pm

jaffadj wrote:what about 'abbreviation'

"TLA" - Three Letter Acronym

// C

digitalkettle · Post by **digitalkettle** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:46 am

conny wrote: "TLA" - Three Letter Acronym

"ETLA" - Extended Three Letter Acronym

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:20 am

prosody is an interesting one. The idea in music that the shape of the melody (rising/falling) corresponds to the content of the lyrics.

Some examples: (sing these aloud)

"Somewhere over the rainbow way up high"
-the full octave jump from "some" to "where" suggests going up. "Up" is also a high note in the melody.

"You've lost that lovin' feelin' now you're gone, gone, gone woah woah woah"
-see how the descending notes on the "gone"s and the "woah"s suggest sliding into the pit of despair. If you sing the same words with notes going up... it sounds very odd, you don't sound at all sincere...

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:49 am

Pitch Black wrote:prosody is an interesting one. The idea in music that the shape of the melody (rising/falling) corresponds to the content of the lyrics.

Some examples: (sing these aloud)

"Somewhere over the rainbow way up high"
-the full octave jump from "some" to "where" suggests going up. "Up" is also a high note in the melody.

"You've lost that lovin' feelin' now you're gone, gone, gone woah woah woah"
-see how the descending notes on the "gone"s and the "woah"s suggest sliding into the pit of despair. If you sing the same words with notes going up... it sounds very odd, you don't sound at all sincere...

extremely intersting concept. not unlike the kinds of things I find myself pondering dayly but usually that kind of stuff is all nonsense.

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:20 am

Johnisfaster wrote:
Pitch Black wrote:prosody is an interesting one. The idea in music that the shape of the melody (rising/falling) corresponds to the content of the lyrics.

Some examples: (sing these aloud)

"Somewhere over the rainbow way up high"
-the full octave jump from "some" to "where" suggests going up. "Up" is also a high note in the melody.

"You've lost that lovin' feelin' now you're gone, gone, gone woah woah woah"
-see how the descending notes on the "gone"s and the "woah"s suggest sliding into the pit of despair. If you sing the same words with notes going up... it sounds very odd, you don't sound at all sincere...
extremely intersting concept. not unlike the kinds of things I find myself pondering dayly but usually that kind of stuff is all nonsense.

Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon!

snakedogman · Post by **snakedogman** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:27 am

Lo-Fi Massahkah wrote:Ombudsman would be the Swedish spelling...

-M

also the same in Dutch

conny · Post by **conny** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:14 pm

snakedogman wrote:
Lo-Fi Massahkah wrote:Ombudsman would be the Swedish spelling...

-M
also the same in Dutch

Like "smorgasbord", as even recorded by Elvis.
(Local spelling: Smörgåsbord; "traditionall Swedish bufe")

// C

conny · Post by **conny** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:26 pm

digitalkettle wrote:
conny wrote: "TLA" - Three Letter Acronym
"ETLA" - Extended Three Letter Acronym

// C

doughty · Post by **doughty** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:58 pm

solipsism

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:37 pm

doughty wrote:solipsism

Tell that to the man in the shed that runs the Universe. And he might not believe you at all....
/excuses himself.

Oh, and we don't use the word smörgåsbord in denmark at all.