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Mosca Posted 19 years ago
Hi all,
The word 'plop' seems to be used in two ways - first the expected as the sound produced when an object is thrown into water withtout a splash - this is very normal to me (it's used in the same way in my native language). The second seems to be associated with a more heavy sound, the one produced when a body dropped is heavily onto/into something. This later meaning is a bit awkward to me as 'plop' to me already having a meaning in my native language meaning a light, 'funny', almost comic sound.
My question is, which is the interpretation that first comes to mind to native speakers? And how common would you say the second use of the word is?
From answers.com
plop (plop)
v., plopped, plop·ping, plops.
v.intr.
Vocabulary
The most common use of the immiative sound word 'plop'!
Hi all,
The word 'plop' seems to be used in two ways - first the expected as the sound produced when an object is thrown into water withtout a splash - this is very normal to me (it's used in the same way in my native language). The second seems to be associated with a more heavy sound, the one produced when a body dropped is heavily onto/into something. This later meaning is a bit awkward to me as 'plop' to me already having a meaning in my native language meaning a light, 'funny', almost comic sound.
My question is, which is the interpretation that first comes to mind to native speakers? And how common would you say the second use of the word is?
From answers.com
plop (plop)
v., plopped, plop·ping, plops.
v.intr.
- To fall with a sound like that of an object falling into water without splashing.
- To let the body drop heavily: Exhausted, I plopped into the armchair. v.tr.
To drop or set heavily, with or as if with a plopping sound: plopped the child into the stroller.
n.
A plopping sound or movement.
[Imitative.]
plop plop adv.
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Hi, which is the interpretation that first comes to mind to native speakers? I think my understanding would be very quickly and very much influenced by the context, by the sentence. And how common would you say the second use of the word is?
- Hi, which is the interpretation that first comes to mind to native speakers?
- I think my understanding would be very quickly and very much influenced by the context, by the sentence.
- And how common would you say the second use of the word is?
- Generally speaking, I wouldn't say that 'plop' is a very common word in either sense.
- Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,
which is the interpretation that first comes to mind to native speakers? I think my understanding would be very quickly and very much influenced by the context, by the sentence.
And how common would you say the second use of the word is? Generally speaking, I wouldn't say that 'plop' is a very common word in either sen
which is the interpretation that first comes to mind to native speakers? I think my understanding would be very quickly and very much influenced by the context, by the sentence.
And how common would you say the second use of the word is? Generally speaking, I wouldn't say that 'plop' is a very common word in either sen
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Thanks, would you call it 'inventive' prose? It's something I've come across while reading the amazing canadian writer Douglas Coupland. (He really has a language full of unfamiliar words (to me) - usually when I read english litterature I come across something on every second, third or forth page (very genereally speaking of course) .. .with Coupland's books I rarely read a page without underlini
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Hi,
I guess that good writers often use words in an unusual and interesting way.
Best wishes, Clive
I guess that good writers often use words in an unusual and interesting way.
Best wishes, Clive
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