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Example sentences for: onomatopoeia

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Onomatopoeia adds zest to language, from aagh! to zzz ..., but somewhere between print and enunciation, the exact equivalence between sound and sense can get lost.
Luckily, since most comics are aimed at those with unsophisticated reading skills, most of the onomatopoeia inside is spelled the way it sounds.
The vocabulary is jocular in its easy mixture of the casual (in slang or coinages or abbreviations), the learned (in avatar, baroque, catatonic, synchronous ), the visual (in hieroglyphics or emoticons), and even the aural (in the fondness for explosives, like bang , common spoken name for !) or onomatopoeia ( bletch, glitch, gonk ).
Damn the myopic but all-seeing eyes of that news-ferret Cramer for having the cruel wit to reduce him to an onomatopoeia.
In parallel with the roots of onomatopoeia (onoma `name' + poiein `to make or do') I have christened the effect onomatoplazia: onoma again + pladzein `to mislead or deceive.