Re: [PEIRCE-L] Non-arbitrary connections between the sounds of words and there objects

2017-03-18 Thread Jon Awbrey
John, List ... Their was but a smattering of examples in the article but of the ones I saw they're I would not say there very convincing. Regards, Jon On 3/14/2017 2:31 PM, John Collier wrote: > The usual view is that except for some onomatopoetic words, > the connection between words and

[PEIRCE-L] Non-arbitrary connections between the sounds of words and there objects

2017-03-14 Thread John Collier
The usual view is that except for some onomatopoetic words, the connection between words and there objects is arbitrary. Apparently this is not true in general, at least across many unrelated languages for a set of basic words. See: