Sunday Fun

most of you will probably look up the meaning of the word

[incrediBILL]

What's your favorite onomatopoeia?

Let's see how creative people get with this one!

:)

[topr8]

'clunk, click every trip', was the slogan for wearing a seatbelt in the uk back in the day, and it has two!
not the most exciting examples but i love the expression.

[LifeinAsia]

I always though "thunk" has a nice, hearty sound to it and nicely describes the sound of a crossbow bolt slicing through a warrior's chest and into the wood beam behind him.

On a side note, in high school I was quite involved in D&D and some of the other players in our group were quite creative in inventing new onomatopoeiatic vocabulary. One summer our family hosted an exchange student from France and exposed him to D&D. During the first time he was involved in playing, we noticed him constantly looking through his English-French dictionary and getting more and more frustrated. It turned out he was trying to look up the words he heard, with no luck. :)

[lucy24]

I always thought "thunk" has ...

I really, really wanted to find a pun in there.

There's some blahblah in Terry Pratchett-- maybe in one of the Tiffany Aching books-- about words that sound like what they mean. (He's talking about actual, lexical words, not just sound effects.) The Hebrew word for "bottle" transliterates as bakbuk,* which is pretty much the sound of liquid pouring from a flask.


* I think my father originally told me this. But I looked it up before posting.

[LifeinAsia]

I always thought "thunk" has ...

I really, really wanted to find a pun in there.

Maybe another "thunk" comes from the sound of lucy's brain when it hits a wall after not being able to find a pun? Or possibly when her brain calls a sub-function [en.wikipedia.org] for extra processing (or punts it to subconscious processing)?

[Leosghost]

Glug..( speelchucker doesn't think is a word !)

Gargle..

Gurgle..

Gargoyle..

and Goulot ..the latter, if repeated makes the sound that a Goulot makes when liquid passes through it..as in pouring water, wine, whiskey etc..

[seoskunk]

gluegarl

No results

Yippeee

[lucy24]

or punts it to subconscious processing

Who'd'a thunk it.

Goulot ..the latter, if repeated makes the sound that a Goulot makes when liquid passes through it..as in pouring water, wine, whiskey etc..

Like a gullet, you mean?

[Leosghost]

Goulot is where gullet comes from :)

"Etymology" which some ( but certainly not Lucy ) may have to look up ;)

[edited by: Leosghost at 12:29 pm (utc) on Dec 8, 2014]

[engine]

One of my favourites comes from Batman: "kapow!"

[Leosghost]

I thought that was what Abby Sciuto drinks ;)

[buckworks]

Murmur.

[lucy24]

One of my favourites comes from Batman:

I believe there exist entire websites dedicated to Batman sound effects.

[Planet13]

buzz
splat
crack
wham
ralph

and a few others that should not be mentioned in polite company...

[Planet13]

Ack! How could I have forgotten:

Kabong!