The Origin And Philosophy of Language
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. . There are of course some names, such as cuckoo, which are clearly formed by an imitation of sound. But words of this kind are, like artificial flowers, without a root. They are sterile, and are unfit to express anything beyond the one object which they imitate. ... As the word cuckoo predicates nothing 'Lectures on the Science of Language, vol. 1. p. 409.
MAX MULLEK'S THEORY 115 but the sound of a particular bird, it could never be applied for expressing any general quality in which other a...nimals might share. . . . Cuckoo could never mean anything but the cuckoo, and while a word like raven has ever so many relations, from a rumor down to a row, cuckoo stands by itself like a stick in a living hedge. . . . Many more instances might be given to show how easily we are deceived by the constant connection of certain sounds and certain meanings in our own languages. . . . Most of these onomatopoeias vanish (as in the case of thunder, katze, squirrel, &c.) as soon as we trace our own names back to Anglo-Saxon and Gothic, or compare them with their cognates in Greek, Latin, or Sanskrit.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
. . There are of course some names, such as cuckoo, which are clearly formed by an imitation of sound. But words of this kind are, like artificial flowers, without a root. They are sterile, and are unfit to express anything beyond the one object which they imitate. ... As the word cuckoo predicates nothing 'Lectures on the Science of Language, vol. 1. p. 409.
MAX MULLEK'S THEORY 115 but the sound of a particular bird, it could never be applied for expressing any general quality in which other a...nimals might share. . . . Cuckoo could never mean anything but the cuckoo, and while a word like raven has ever so many relations, from a rumor down to a row, cuckoo stands by itself like a stick in a living hedge. . . . Many more instances might be given to show how easily we are deceived by the constant connection of certain sounds and certain meanings in our own languages. . . . Most of these onomatopoeias vanish (as in the case of thunder, katze, squirrel, &c.) as soon as we trace our own names back to Anglo-Saxon and Gothic, or compare them with their cognates in Greek, Latin, or Sanskrit.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Ludwig Noiré to read onlineMoreLess
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