[lit-ideas] Philosophy of the Ear
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:51:30 EDT
In a message dated 6/28/2010 4:03:47 A.M., jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx
writes:
Life is so damn noisy:
all that farting and burping and belching
and those hilarious
dick induced vaginal fart-sounds,
----
The problem with 'sound', as Grice says, following, David Hume, is the
_ear_. In animals without ears (amoeba, etc.) they live in a silent world. Not
that they'll complain about it!
Aristotle said that a man (e.g. Van Gogh) without a 'ear' is a 'privation',
not a 'negation' (Grice has an early paper on this "Privation and
Negation". We don't say that the orchestra was 'privated' of sound.
Twain would complain about the sound of Wagner's music.
Most onomatopoetic words for 'sounds' imitate what they reproduce. To echo
Geary:
farting
burping
belching
--- In fact, 'belch', is Anglo-Norman, and NOT onomatopoetic in nature.
"Fart" is not onomatopoetic either. "Burp" is. In Italian, no word is truly
onomatopoetic in that no Italian word can end in a consonant, and 'burp'
ends in a consonant (in two consonants, rather). The Italian for 'burp' is
NOT onomatopoetic, but rather 'operatic'.
J. L. Speranza, Bordighera, etc.
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