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I posted this request earlier, in the wrong "area". I am reposting it where I believe it belongs:
Could someone kindly tell me where I could find a list of onomatopoeic words? I am translating a short story from Romanian into English. At one point the author says [translation follows, with Romanian word in capitals]: "...the melting asphalt into which the high heels of her shoes were sinking with a FLEOSC" What would be the English equivalent? "Swoosh" (Probably not). "Slosh"?
Dorin
Could someone kindly tell me where I could find a list of onomatopoeic words? I am translating a short story from Romanian into English. At one point the author says [translation follows, with Romanian word in capitals]: "...the melting asphalt into which the high heels of her shoes were sinking with a FLEOSC" What would be the English equivalent? "Swoosh" (Probably not). "Slosh"?
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Dear doru: the URL below calls itself "onomatopoeia" but the list given is not very long. There is a lot of other stulf that might make it worth looking at. http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/onomatopoeia.htmlThe high heels sinking into the tar would not make any noise, but when lifted would make a noise like bubble gum popping, snapping,clucking, plucking, ...........
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if you follow the link Return to Literary Term Page, http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/index.html, you make the spellbinding discovery that the only nonCapitalized term is "anastrophe". ASp, could you provide on this a Hyperbole of 17 words or less?
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yes-- i agree with WWH (Dr. Bill) even stiletto heels, would sink silently in to the softed asphalt, and come free with faint, pops, softer then normal stacatto of heels on pavement.
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"sinking with a slurp" maybe?
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Thank you for your kind help.
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Doru, welcome aBoard--glad to have you! I just "found" this, though for all I know it's been posted a million times as a Favorite Link: http://www.itools.com/It does say they have a brand-new Language Tools section, and I'd say it would be worth your while to look there.
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I have to agree with the others that a stiletto heel (AE = pump) would not make much of a sound, but if it did I'd describe it as a muffled squelch
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A pump is a stiletto heel? I always thought pumps were something like ballet shoes or have I been misled?
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Bingley, oh ye of the sheltered life ... a pump - usually of leather -- (sometimes called a high heel shoe) is a lady's shoe which can be a fully closed, open toed or even sling back shoe, with a heel of 1 1/2 up to 3 1/2 inches. A stilleto heel is at least four (4) inches and can be more. Stilleto heels are found on pumps. So, all stilleto heeled shoes are pumps but not all pumps are stilleto heeled.  Stilleto pumps are sometimes connencted to shoe fetishism.
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