Comments for The Ideophone

Comment on Basquekpafu by iraide ibarretxe

iraide ibarretxe — Sat, 12 May 2012 10:14:20 +0000

hi mark!
ha! see… Siwu and Basque almost the same!!!

Comment on A visit to Akpafu by David Asante, 1887 by sena

sena — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:28:38 +0000

woW, as a history student reading about the indigenous industries in pre colonial GHANA, i found out that the people of AKPAFU and SANTROKOFI were smelting iron, so i asked my mum and she told me but now the industry has collapsed.

Comment on How is Sotho siks! doing? by Ideophones around the web | The Ideophone

Ideophones around the web | The Ideophone — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:52:23 +0000

[...] How is Sotho siks! doing?, I asked for more information on an interesting ideophone reported in 1965 by Daniel P. Kunene. I [...]

Comment on We need Simpler Syntax, but we can do without a Grammar of the Gaps by But is it grammar? | The Ideophone

But is it grammar? | The Ideophone — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:48:29 +0000

[...] agree or disagree with! I have wondered before (in an admittedly tongue-in-cheek post on the ‘grammar of the gaps‘) about the gradual shift of UG to evermore abstract territories — compare for example [...]

Comment on Early sources on African ideophones, part IV: S.W. Koelle on Kanuri, 1854 by Aduerbia sonus: Ideophones in two 17th century grammars of Japanese | The Ideophone

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:48:02 +0000

[...] on ideophonic phenomena. For example, I have suggested that we may call the 1850′s the decade of the discovery of ideophones in African linguistics. But we can push back the linguistic discovery of ideophones a little [...]

Comment on An ideophone poem by Stacey Tran by Sundar

Sundar — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:23:28 +0000

In fact, “mukki mukki” qualifies the action of speaking to mean “mumbled (when someone is scared of speaking to a person of authority or when they are not articulate enough)”. A typical usage would be avan mukki mukki pesinaan (அவன் முக்கி முக்கிப் பேசினான்.) that means “He mumbled hesitantly.”

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.10:1:5228.tamillex
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.10:1:5265.tamillex

Comment on An ideophone poem by Stacey Tran by Sundar

Sundar — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:16:34 +0000

Interesting. mukku is a verb in Tamil that connotes controlled exertion as well as mumbling when it occurs as “mukki munagu”.

Comment on A hand drawn map of Kawu by Elias

Elias — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:52:53 +0000

This is the place everybody must wish to be especially during our Rice festival in April. The atmosphere is always welcoming, this made our keep one of their most important food crop”kawumor” (i.e brown rice) viable through good and even very bad weather conditions.
Proud to come from Odomi

Comment on Robertson’s Report on the geology of Western Togoland (1921) by The Secretary General, Western Togoland Restoration Congress

The Secretary General, Western Togoland Restoration Congress — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:45:21 +0000

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Comment on Gender-based folk etymologies for the name Akpafu by Tetteh Oye Godswill

Tetteh Oye Godswill — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:05:37 +0000

I’m confused! Problem of oral source of history hmmm