Talk:Onomatopoeia/Archive 1

message: Would onomatopoeia be linguistically/grammatically classified as interjections?
:Only if they were used as such, e.g. "He was crossing on a plank and--snap!--it broke." Most of the words in the list I think are more commonly verbs or nouns, or both. You can get attention with a snap, or snap wood in two. "Boo hoo" and "wow" are usually interjections (though I'm not sure how the latter is onomatopoeia). Still, it depends on usage: if you don't wow an audience, they boo! Davilla 19:00, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Interjections?

message: I read a long time ago that the Kodak camera company are so named because of the clicking sounds of pressing the button.  Anyone know if that's true?  violet/riga (t) 19:15, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The similarity between the word  and the click sound of pressing the button doesn't strike me as compelling. Personal opinions aside, the online etymology dictionary tells us that it is an "arbitrary coinage by U.S. inventor George Eastman (1854-1932), U.S. trademark reg. Sept. 4, 1888".  — mark ✎ 21:54, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll trust that site, being dedicated to etymologies, though other sites I Googled hint it may be true - perhaps it's an urban myth. violet/riga (t) 21:58, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kodak 

message: This article mainly deals with words that are directly seen as onomatopoeia, but what of words of such common usage that their onomatopoeic roots are not as evident?  I am reminded of words such as "whisper", "murmer", and "delicate"; should these words be included in the scope of this article?  Bobryuu 20:07, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common Words Derived from Onomatopoeia 

message: Here is a list of Japanese onomatopoeia: web.mit.edu/anime/www/onomatopoeia.html here.
Okay, any idea where the randomly censored words came from? -Unnatural20 --198.138.132.2 08:39, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Forigen language onomatopoeia 

message: The list of "Everyday Sounds" has grown grotesquely large, so I have been bold and moved a large number of them to a new article titled List of Onomatopoeias. Maybe the list can be trimmed down even more. Anyways, I think an encyclopedia should have more of a definition and explanation than a full run down of the examples, save for a few... In fact, I think maybe the examples should be moved down a couple of sections...? Two-Bit Sprite 13:32, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup, and new page 

message: Can these really be classed as "very common"?  I, for one, have never come across them before.
:Queef - moved to "list of..." already 
:Ding-Dong-Diddly-Poof 
:Boosh.
Is "hush" onomatopoeia at all?  It is used to express an absence of sound, not a sound that sounds like hush.  Perhaps it should be moved into non-auditory onomatopoeia, though the concept seems to me to be oxymoron.
I've re-spelled "cukoo" as "cuckoo".  Maybe the former is the American spelling, in which case I apologise.
This list is inevitably going to be contentious.  Why not move the whole thing to "list of..."?
King Hildebrand 09:35, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "very common English-language examples" 

message: Is anybody actually going to create articles entitled, "Whaam!", "Blam" or "Snikt"?  If not (as seems probable) the links should be removed.  --King Hildebrand 09:53, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comics 

message: Why the insistance on the ligature? Shouldn't the most common spelling be used?
Peter Isotalo 08:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was Move.  --Brouhaha 23:44, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Traditional, original spelling" 

message: :Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
*Support - Wikipedia naming conventions require use of most common form, which clearly does NOT include a ligature.  A redirect from the with-ligature spelling is sufficient.  --Brouhaha 07:39, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: User:203.59.221.18 added a text intended to illustrate onomatopoeia ("Running From……") . I reverted it the first time around, because IMO the contribution doesn't add anything significant to the article. The text has been added again. I wont revert this time but leave it up to other editors to decide. Even if it stays, it shouldn't be placed under the section "Onomatopoeic Names", and the line "Written by Charlotte Bennett, Year 6" definitely doesn't belong here either. ---Sluzzelin 06:22, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  203.59.221.18's contribution 

message: I just finished my second round of pruning the list of examples, which had become unwieldy and erroneous (it still is!). I removed many 'words' that are in fact just transcribed sounds and not really conventionalized linguistic signs; the difference between those and real onomatopoeia is partly outlined in my posting above. It is a difference which probably should be outlined in the article. — mark ✎ 21:02, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Can anyone find a reference to support this more restrictive definition of the term? If I find one, I will present it here, and, if I have the time, revise the article to reflect it. - Torgo 08:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Virtually any good overview of semiotics will have something like that. I think Keller's A Theory of Semiotic Knowledge (1996) is a good one; I'll look it up. — mark ✎ 08:18, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pruning

message: I've again pruned the article and also tried to improve the flow of the text a bit. Let's abandon the lists, they attract bad and uninformed "Oh, I know one too"-edits which degrade the quality of the article. If you want a list, you can go to wikt:Category:Onomatopoeia (it may be a good idea to put a link to that category in the article). Let's focus on writing a real good article instead, based on reliable and preferably scholarly sources. — mark ✎ 08:47, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pruning (again) 

message: http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/new_literary_history/v027/27.3bredin.html
:Hmm, one needs a subscription to read that article so for must readers it's inaccessible. — mark ✎ 08:09, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Add link if you want to

message: "Some animals are named after the sounds they make, especially birds such as the cuckoo and chickadee. In Tamil, the word for crow is Kaakaa. This practice is especially common in certain languages such as Māori and therefore in names for birds borrowed from these languages."
"this practice" refers to naming animals after the sounds they make, not "especially birds", so I changed the last line to reflect that--"in names for animals borrowed from these languages."  If in fact, bird names and not animal names in general are borrowed from languages high on onomatopoeic animal names, just revert me.  TStein 10:58, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maori animals 

message: Of all the great choices for Chinese onomatopoeia, wangwang for dog barking?  I don't think so...if anything, the word for dog, "gou" 狗, is an onomatopoeia.  At the very least, that needs a citation.  In the meantime, I'll put a different, more believable one in there.  Also, here's a short list of other onomatopoeia:
*喵, miao, the sound a cat makes
*猫, mao, a cat
*顶, ding, (archaic) to strike a bell
*叮, ding, sound a struck bell makes
*乎, hu, exhale
*呼, hu, sound of exhaling
*吸, xi, inhale / sound of inhaling
* (?) 屙, e, going to the bathroom (?)
.<spetz>.72.76.248.151 23:46, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Then again, if the Korean for a dog barking is mang mang, it's probable that the Chinese for it is wang wang.<spetz>.72.76.248.151 23:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

text: And Japanese "Wan Wan". 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 11:37, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese 

message: It might make more sense to have the list of onomatopoeias at the beginning of the article be onomatopoeia for the same thing, to illustrate how different they can be, which is mentioned at the top of the list.  "Onomatopoeic words exist in every language, although they are different in each. For example:" implies that this will demonstrate the difference (which would probably be valuable), but instead most of the onomatopoeias are for different things.  Just a thought.  128.253.71.37 20:52, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Onomatopoeias 

message: I'm looking for the information about English being an onomatopoeic language itself, i.e. its words are the onomatopoeic expressions, like for example cough - the sound of cough or swamp - the sound of stomping in the swampy ground, ect. Somehow I don't believe nobody noticed it before, so I am sure there are some works (linguistic ect.) about it. Anyone could help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Merewyn (talk • contribs) 14:01, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Onomatopoeic English 

message: * Hiragana or Katakana should be added, and I'm imagining Ahoo is supposed to be Ahou, or Ahouou, so accent marks should be added above it to indicate its a long vowel. Same with Kaa Kaa and Gaa Gaa.Moocowsrule (talk) 05:16, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crow Calling Japanese 

message: The Hindi example near the top of the article (and perhaps all other foreign words in this article, given the subject of the article) needs to be transcribed in IPA, to replace the non-standard pronunciation guide given. I know IPA, but I don't know Hindi... could someone who does, or the person who added these examples please do that? (pretty sure IPA is the wikipedia standard for pronunciation) Torgo 08:11, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPA 

message: I don't know how to change it myself, can
someone please take out the vandalism and useless profanity?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.203.172.148 (talk) 02:45, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Define the word 'profanity'. 'Profanity' as you call it is not always 'useless'. Profanity is very useful. Most people who aren't total robotic prats understand this. You're asking for a qualifier of censorship here; Wikipedia would and should never allow anything so immature. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.136.52.125 (talk) 19:20, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: "One example is English "bleat" for the sheep noise: in medieval times it was pronounced approximately as "blairt" (but without an R-component), or "blet" with the vowel drawled, which is much more accurate as onomatopoeia than the modern pronunciation."
I suggest a "(baaaah)" or something similar at the end of this paragraph, to provide an example of the modern pronunciation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.92.60.20 (talk) 14:07, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example of modern pronunciation of sheep noise 

message: The section references the name zipper as being because of the sound it makes, calling it an onomatopoeic name. The zipper article does not back this up; the incorrect reference should be removed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cinnabarite (talk • contribs) 22:44, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zipper 

message: Please add this external link:
*/ Popular online sound-collection of children imitating animals and vehicles etc
Agatomi (talk) 19:11, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Agatomi, 21 June 2010 

message: The lead section offered, as examples of cross-language differences, English tick-tock, Dutch tik tak, and French tic-tac. While these do differ, they differ only slightly. I have replaced the Dutch and French examples with Mandarin and Japanese, which are more clearly distinct (dī dā and katchin katchin). By the way, Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias gives the Japanese version as kachi kachi. This does mean "tick" as an onomatopoeia, but in my experience more often means "hard" or "rigid" as a gitaigo mimetic. Cnilep (talk) 16:52, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Tick-tock'' in the lead section 

message: The onomatopoeia that is said to be heard at a typical Disco Biscuits (a popular jamband) show is untz. This description seems to have originated from an interview with Bob Dylan, who said "I kept hearing this, untz..untz..untz..untz..(sound in the background of all the music)"
Anyone have a reference to the Bob Dylan interview? This quotation is unknown to any Bob Dylan aficianados. 
131.111.161.185 (talk) 10:12, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  untz..untz..untz..untz.. 

message: I'm from the US and came back afterliving overseas for many years (Italy as well as a number of other countries). I find that when I have a conversation if I imitatate sounds or noises people look at me like its a bit strange. Maybe I've been overseas too long,and don't remember my own culture. 
Question: Would anyone say that in Anglo - American culture,  occassonally imitating sounds to describe something ((like making a dog noise, a woosh sound, or a choo choo noise for instance) childish or foreign sounding in  an informal conversation in anyone's opinion? Maybe this should be mentioned on the Wikipdiea page. Also have any studies been done on this topic?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.93.10.131 (talk) 03:52, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Anglo American Culture: Is Imitating Sounds considered Childish or Foreign sounding? 

message: Is speech considered onomatopoeia to written language? M2K e 23:29, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It isn't, since speech is not 'motivated' by written language the way the sound of an onomatopoeia is motivated by what it refers to. — mark ✎ 05:33, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speech as onomatopoeia 

message: The picture from the webcomic with the completely uncommon "dook dook" for drinking seems a bit too much like somebody trying to get free advertising for their comic. Wouldn't a more neutral or least more well known image be better? Like a still from the batman show, or just a  generic clip art of the word BOING! with crazy angular lines around it?68.11.25.82 (talk) 05:21, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  In media photo 

message: Zounds is a mild oath from Elizabethan times (perhaps earlier; I'm not sure), for "By God's wounds", sometimes abbreviated "'swounds".  Historical example: Buckingham entreating Gloucester to accept the crown in Richard III.  "Come, citizens: 'zounds! I'll entreat no more."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.36.193.246 (talk) 22:33, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zounds is not Onomatopoeia 

message: Both Aristophanes and his play, "The Frogs", are referenced. Yet neither are linked. Links? 208.127.239.5 (talk) 08:12, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 

message: "Please add the following link to ==External links=="
*Bzzzpeek – Collection of onomatopoeia from around the world (Flash required)
Agatomi (talk) 13:28, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Took a look at the link and it seems very off-topic. Don't you have a better suggestion? ZipoBibrok5x10^8 (talk) 07:13, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from , 5 October 2011 

message: The page English words with uncommon properties was deleted per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/English words with uncommon properties. Deletion review is currently under way at Wikipedia:Deletion review#English words with uncommon properties, but pending that discussion the article has no content. I have therefore removed the hatnote from this article redirecting users to that one. Cnilep (talk) 04:19, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  'English words with uncommon properties' deleted 

message: From the article:
"In a 2002 episode of The West Wing, Rob Lowe (Sam Seaborn) and Ian McShane (portraying a Russian negotiator) have a conversation about how the word 'frumpy' "onomatopoetically sounds right".[5]"
Really? When you say Hamlet speaks to his father's ghost do you first say the name of the actors who portray the characters? Why would you do it here? Does somebody think that the actors created the dialogue?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.21.181.27 (talk) 03:27, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong way around? 

message: It's my understanding that the word “onomatopoeia” is itself an onomatopoeia, as it is derived from the sound produced when the word is spoken aloud.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by KenMhorsechops (talk • contribs) 00:20, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Let's include "onomatopoeia" in the list of examples. 

message: Please modify the following text from:
When someone speaks of a mishap involving an audible arcing of electricity, the word "zap" is often used (and has been subsequently expanded and used to non-auditory effects generally connoting the same sort of localized but thorough interference or destruction similar to produced in short-circuit sparking).
To the following:
When someone speaks of a mishap involving an audible arcing of electricity, the word "zap" is often used (and has subsequently been expanded and used to describe non-auditory effects generally connoting the same sort of localized but thorough interference or destruction similar to that produced in short-circuit sparking).
This is strictly a request to switch the words "been" and "subsequently" and to add the words "describe" and "that" as noted above in order to make the sentence easier to understand.
Thank you.
Acro mega man (talk) 18:34, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 30 January 2012 

message: In the opening paragraph "oink" is given as an example as an onomatopoeia.  "Moo" would be a better example as no animal makes a sound like "oink" even though English speaking children are taught so.  "Moo" is pretty much universal, whereas "oink" exists in only a few languages.  While this is the English section of Wikipedia, the example would be clear to anyone reading the page whose first language is not English.
In the same light, "baa" would be a better example than "roar."
Knoxjeff (talk) 17:41, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: they're all common English words, not worth changing every time an editor likes one better than the other. — Bility (talk) 01:13, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 14 February 2012 

message: The current reference overlooks that each onomatopoetic word in the song is immediately followed by a corresponding sound. Suggest that it be modified to something like:
:Todd Rundgren's "Hermit of Mink Hollow" album contains the humorous love song "Onomatopoeia" which contains 60 examples of onomatopoeia, each immediately followed by a corresponding sound effect. They start out reasonable but get more extreme as the song goes on.
RMoribayashi (talk) 17:28, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Todd Rundgren's Song  "Onomatopoeia" 

message: The quoted sound brekekekex koax koax occurs only in Aristophanes' comedy The Frogs - I felt this needed adding as it would otherwise leave the impression that it was in widespread use in Attic Greek, which it actually wasn't; it is simply a literary invention. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.105.207.250 (talk) 00:10, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancient Greek frogs 

message: Add some history of Onomatopoeia and its uses from 18BC-35AD — Preceding unsigned comment added by CurlyQ8592 (talk • contribs) 02:28, 23 October 2013‎
: Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:09, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: Please insert the following interesting information, I found on "Palindrome" wiki page:
:"tattarrattat" is the longest palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) for a knock on the door.
176.63.175.220 (talk) 16:50, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Sam Sailor Sing 08:47, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tattarrattat 

message: There is an extra ")" in the article for the sound of a chicken. In the "Uses of onomatopoeia" section the article reads:
"For animal sounds, words like quack (duck), moo (cow), bark or woof (dog), roar (lion), meow/miaow or purr (cat), cluck) (chicken)"
CognitiveCog (talk) 20:26, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Punctuation 

message: This entire section is, I feel, extremely subjective, and reflects the personal opinion of the writer rather than facts. Furthermore, it is slightly outside of the scope of the article, as it is about words that conjure up images in the imagination. However, I am reluctant to simply remove it unless others agree.
MrGraphis (talk) 13:01, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Onomatopoeic effect without onomatopoeia words

message: There is an extra ")" in the article for the sound of a chicken. In the "Uses of onomatopoeia" section the article reads:
"For animal sounds, words like quack (duck), moo (cow), bark or woof (dog), roar (lion), meow/miaow or purr (cat), cluck) (chicken)"
Please change cluck) to cluck
CognitiveCog (talk) 22:00, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 23 April 2014 

message: Onomatopoeia is a not an verb../;, 
2607:FA78:109F:45:0:0:0:234 (talk) 19:57, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. —  (e • t • c) 22:30, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 11 June 2014 

message: Examples in Media
In 2013, the viral song and video "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)" written by Norwegian Duo Ylvis is literally explaining what onomatopoeia is. Some of the lyrics included in the song are, |Dog goes woof, Cat goes meow. | Bird goes tweet, and mouse goes squeak. | Cow goes moo. Frog goes croak, and the elephant goes toot. |
"The Duck Song" a viral video and song written in 2009 also has examples of onomatopoeia in it. When the duck walks away the lyrics go, | Then he waddled away, "waddle" "waddle", then he waddled away, "waddle" "waddle" waddle" |
"Ylvis - The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) [Official Music Video HD]." YouTube. YouTube, 3 Sept. 2013. Web. 30 Sept. 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE>.
"The Duck Song." YouTube. YouTube, 23 Mar. 2009. Web. 30 Sept. 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN1YnoL46Q>.
Kuppal12 (talk) 01:33, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  those are both primary sources and not reliable.  (YouTube is not an acceptable source.)  G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 01:43, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 6 November 2014 

message: Porkythepig29 (talk) 00:37, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Stickee (talk) 00:45, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 2 December 2014  I wish to correct an grammer error 

message: Shouldn't there be some paragraph about the use of verbs as onomatopoeia ?
It is only mentionned for animals, but it can also be seen for human sounds like "yawn" or the above masturbation verb, or even in some comics where verbs such as "change", "pounce" or "explode" are being increasingly common... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.252.7.34 (talk) 14:26, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verbs as onomatopoeia 

message: Note #9 (linking to princeton.edu) is a circular reference, it's referring to a page where all the text is taken from this article. "This content of this page is taken from Wikipedia, and may not be up-to-date. The objective of this website is NOT to provide information, but to demonstrate an automatic document organizer and browser. Please visit the original Wikipedia page if you're interested in content." (Under "Warning: Do not cite") //Vätte (talk) 15:26, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problematic source 

message: Quote: "Although in the English language the term onomatopoeia means the imitation of a sound, in the Greek language the compound word onomatopoeia (ονοματοποιία) means "making or creating names". For words that imitate sounds the term Ηχομιμητικό (echomimetico or echomimetic) is used. Ηχομιμητικό (echomimetico) from Ηχώ meaning "echo or sound" and μιμητικό meaning "mimetic or imitation"."
# That's unsourced.
# Accourding to dictionaries (Classical) Greek ὀνοματοποιΐα (ἡ) (onomatopoiḯa) means: the coining of words, especially in imitation of a sound (Pape) or the coining of a word in imitation of a sound (LSJ).
# "Η" is a capital letter, while "e" is not, so "term Ηχομιμητικό (echomimetico [...])" is contradicting.
# Accourding to a Modern Greek dictionary both ονοματοποιία (onomatopoiía) and ηχομιμητική (ichomimitikí - with i instead of e at the beginning) exist and mean "onomatopoeia".
IP, 17:34, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greek 

message: In the third paragraph under the heading "Uses of onomatopoeia", all other examples are italicized except "cluck".
Please Italicize the word "cluck" for uniformity.
quack (duck), moo (cow), roar (lion)... cluck (chicken), baa (sheep)
Sabrecho (talk) 15:47, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: thanks for pointing that out - Arjayay (talk) 15:58, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 11 July 2015 

message: Can you please let me edit so that I can use "microwave" as an example, my sources are Dan and Phil's video, where they are naming onomatopoeia words and Dan states "microwave" as being one.
Danisnotonfirevyou2 (talk) 16:39, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not the right page to request additional user rights.If you want to suggest a change, please request this in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".Please also cite reliable sources, not jokes, to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 18:32, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 13 October 2015 

message: 2602:304:CD80:670:59B2:DF75:60C0:4E6D (talk) 20:27, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: While the request appears malformed, this is not a procedural rejection of the implied . No credible sources have been provided for such inclusion. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 20:54, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 14 October 2015 

message: 172.0.199.35 (talk) 23:11, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Datbubblegumdoe[talk – contribs] 01:03, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 25 January 2016 

message: I get redirected to this page from the entry "ouch." It is even the only article linked to if you type "define:ouch" into google.
This is wrong. "Ouch" is NOT an example of onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia refers to words based on sounds, like crunch or ring or grrr.Their pronunciation rests upon universal vocal abilities of humans.Human expression of pain isn't a sound; it varies from one language to the next. "Ouch" or "ow" is what English speakers say when they're in pain; speakers of other languages use other words that sound a little different due to genetic differences in vocal pronunciations. (This is as opposed to things like laughter or crying, where the representation of these sounds may vary from one language to the next, but the sounds themselves are pretty much the same among all human beings regardless of what language they speak. Ha ha and waaa are examples of onomatopoeia; ouch is not.)
Still, how do I go about editing the page to remove "ouch" from the list of words that get redirected to this article? marbeh raglaim 03:42, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and removed the redirect by reverting to a version with just the wiktionary link. To edit a redirect page you can just click on the "redirected from ..." link at the top of the page you get redirected to. Then you'll see the redirect and can edit it as a normal page. See also Wikipedia:Redirect for everything you'd ever want to know about redirects on wikipedia. Shanes 03:58, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Ouch" is NOT Onomatopoeia 

message: Add  template.
--186.84.46.227 (talk) 22:59, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Done clpo13(talk) 23:24, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 May 2016 

message: It's my understanding that "mwah" isn't an onomatopoeia, but literally just the sound of a kiss. If anyone agrees, please change. Rewguy (talk) 19:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That representation of the sound of a kiss is precisely what an onomatopoeia is. Mwah is one of the possible onomatopoeias in English, not in other languages. Antoncampos (talk) 14:11, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Mwah

message: Microwave is an onomatopoeia as Dan Howell (aka danisnotonfire), our Internet Cult Leader, says so.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.75.100.17 (talk) 14:07, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Microwave 

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message: The only information given is that the qu'ran has 9 instances of onomatopeia, only 3 of which are mentioned and all in their English forms. The link requires an account to see. Imo it's the functional equivalent of "Harry Potter has 93,000 words and 7 thunders [Broken Link]". Suggest deletion for irrelevance --VilaRest (talk) 14:41, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabic/ Quran section adds nothing in it's current form. 

message: "wan-wan, bau-bau, or kyan-kyan in Japanese"
wan-wan is the only one I've heard. kyan-kyan is "yelp" or "yap" rather than "bark".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.29.243.206 (talk) 14:55, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How can the same sound be represented by "woof," "arf," and "bark?"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Casey J. Morris (talk • contribs) 03:14, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

text: Tchi would be っち Nate 2169 TalkContributions 23:58, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese 

message: I request that the first mention of “Greek” in the first line of the introductory paragraph be changed to “Ancient Greek” instead, since the word that is being referred to, ὀνοματοποιία is an Ancient Greek word. Furthermore, I suggest that the Modern Greek words in the text be changed, such that:
- ὴχομιμητικό is changed to ηχομιμητική, and its transciption “echomimetico” is changed to “echomimetiké”.
- ὴχώ is changed to ηχώ.
- μιμητικό is changed to μιμητική.
These changes are in accordance to proper Modern Greek grammar and orthography. Cawlo (talk) 09:54, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 21:34, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 6 February 2020