Okay, so by now we all know that the Eskimos (to use the word of our northern neighbors) don't really have a thousand words for snow, or however the story goes, but I am going to wend my way Whorfian and say that, if the hypothesis (that language forms and constrains thought) is true then English speakers have an obsession with sounds, 112 sound emission verbs and counting. I've heard that in Spanish they just have a verb that means "sounds," anyone know about this, or other sound emission verbs (like boom, crash, tinkle, ululate) in other languages?
Posted by linnea at April 9, 2007 10:58 PMWhat about the Japanese?
Posted by: your northern neighbour at April 9, 2007 11:18 PMOh, your blogs use to be readable. Now your just like Evan Don Ovan.
Posted by: wilhamish at April 18, 2007 12:32 PM