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

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

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

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

jaffadj wrote:what about 'abbreviation'

"TLA" - Three Letter Acronym

// C

conny wrote: "TLA" - Three Letter Acronym

"ETLA" - Extended Three Letter Acronym

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...

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.

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!

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

-M

also the same in Dutch

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

digitalkettle wrote:

conny wrote: "TLA" - Three Letter Acronym

"ETLA" - Extended Three Letter Acronym

// C

solipsism

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.