Saturday 30 July 2016

Onomatopia

Onomatopia: noun. A fictional world in which everyone communicates via onomatopoeias, words whose sounds resemble the objects they describe, such as "tick tock" or "roar." Several essays and treatises (the difference between which no one really knows or cares about and seldom bothers to find out before forgetting it again) have been written on Onomatopias, but the most famous example of an Onomatopia comes from the Eighteenth century novelistic ripoff of Thomas More's Utopia, imaginatively called Onomatopia. Rather imaginatively, the author envisions a society whose classes are drifting apart because of the language barriers constructed between them, owing to the different sets of vocabularies each of them develops. Even words for the same things become different, which is perhaps best documented by the words for sex. While the lower classes develop the word "squeaky-squeaky" because of their worn down beds, the middle class develops the word "hubba-hubba" in an effort to seem more like the pretentious higher classes. Meanwhile, the higher classes themselves do not develop any word for sex because it is deemed improper, and they slowly die out.

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