Posted: March 26th, 2008, 11:05pm CET
Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it describes e.g. ‘Crash’ , ‘Miaow’ etc. and as such are possibly the origins of spoken languages being the simplest form of communication - imitating an object to communicate meaning ( for instance in Chinese ‘Mao’ 猫 has become the word for a cat, based [...]