🇯🇵🇺🇸Where Did All the ‘Sound-Feel’ Words Go? Why Japanese Onomatopoeia Feels Missing in English
Japanese has a special kind of vocabulary that many Americans don’t realize exists: words that sound like sounds, but also sound like feelings. In English, we call these onomatopoeia (sound words like bang or buzz), but Japanese goes much further. Japanese uses a huge set of “sound-symbol words” to describe: Many Japanese people who speak English feel frustrated because English doesn’t use…
