You hear a noise, and then you translate it into human language. Oatmeal dropping on the ground? An explosion? Nails on a chalkboard? Or perhaps the peasy is not so easy. Take a moment to imagine what it would be like to write the sound of a lightsaber. Here are a few of the answers given:. The list goes on. And while this might be a seemingly silly example, there are more common examples of disagreement in onomatopoeia.
All you have to do is look at another language. Dogs in English go woof , but in German they go wau wau , in Turkish hev hev , and in Italian bau bau. The problem comes down to the Latin alphabet being designed explicitly to capture human noises.
Onomatopoeia is a contentious issue in linguistics for many of the above reasons. One of the factors important to language — at least according to some — is that vocabulary is arbitrary. It sounds like snoring, or at least since Snoring and sleep became almost interchangeable in comics' language, and this brought on a new agreed-upon standard. In , the American Dialect Society formalized it, and soon after, popular idioms followed, like "catching some z's", for instance.
Over time, the letter Z became linked permanently to everybody's favorite biological imperative. In some cases, they'd use a tiny saw that cuts through a log and both the saw and snore would make the zzzz sound. As time went on, however, this became linked with sleep in general.
Onomatopoeia is the formation of a word that comes from a sound linked with what is named. It's a class of words made for imitating all types of sounds. The reason behind zzz and how it came into being is because comic strip artists had a difficult time representing sleeping. Since there's no real way of representing sleeping, they came up with a sound-word onomatopoeia instead. Boom, buzz, crash, bang, pow, zip, and clang are all onomatopoeias, but depending on their use, are also very real words.
They can be words, such as verbs, or they can represent a certain sound that's made, such as a bee's buzzing. In this case, you'd use "buzz" as a noun. This results the inevitable happening, with little Zs coming out of Togepi. Used in World of Warcraft to indicate sleeping mobs; moving too close will wake them up, but usually slowly. This behavior is exploited for several puzzles.
Bart's Nightmare gives you a health bar composed of Z's, indicating how deeply Bart is sleeping. Waking up is Game Over. Used for the Hermit Gunsmith in Cave Story.
In fact, he'll even say "Zzzz In Super Smash Bros. Game and Watch, being a flat and two-dimensional fighter , will do this when he is put to sleep. In the intro of The Legendary Starfy , Starfy is seen sleeping peacefully in his little bed with several Zs surrounding him and even has Zs in a speech bubble , although he gets a rather sudden awakening right off the bat. In Bayonetta 2 , when Bayonetta is equipped with the unlockable Chain Chomp and stays in place, the Chain Chomp will look around for a while before going to sleep with some large Zs coming out of it.
In Insaniquarium , after using his powers several times, Walter the Penguin will catch some Z's for a short while. Miis who are peacefully asleep in Miitopia lay down on their side with two blue Zs hovering above them.
Xenoblade Chronicles has "sleep" arts be represented with a Z symbol. Sleeping enemies or party members also are represented with a Z on their name tag. MoonBoy in Sleepwalker's Journey has some right up until a shooting star lands in the moon's nose and it sneezes him out of his bed.
Subverted in Undertale. You first meet Napstablook when you find your way through the Ruins blocked by them, apparently sleeping. They're actually wide awake and just saying 'z' out loud repeatedly. Played straight with Sans on the Genocide Route, who exhausts themselves trying to take you out once and for all and eventually falls asleep while trying to stall forever in hopes that you'll just give up.
Interestingly, the font used for the "Zs" in question isn't Comic Sans Sans' usual font or 8-bit Operator The font Sans uses when he gets serious , but rather Aster, suggesting a possible connection with Dr.
Hearthstone uses them to indicate that your minions are "asleep" Hearthstone's equivalent of Magic the Gathering's summoning sickness, meaning you cannot use the creature that has just entered play until your next turn. The English version gives her more sleeptalking. Leave a game of Chuzzle untouched for a while and the titular Chuzzles will fall asleep one by one, with "Z"s coming from them. Soapy Fricker, is asleep. Sana's Sleep Mist spell icon, is of a staff-wielding person bent over, with Z-s rising from them.
Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass : Multiple: The icon at the start menu is a close-eyed Jimmy with a ZZZ rising from him, and the game starts with him being asleep and being woken up. Big Enormous is found in his tent, in the Wilted Lands, sleeping, with a "Z Z" bubble, that switches which one is lower and upper case repeatedly. Ittle Dew : Ittle Dew is sleeping on her raft in the opening cutscene, shown with Zs coming from her mouth and fading away.
In Roly Polys No Nanakorobiyaoki , the "Z" video shows George falling asleep with Z's over his head, and a robot shaped like the letter Z scaring him awake. For instance, the innkeeper says: What is that girl doing, sleeping on the street? Sleepless Domain : In the first panel of this page , Undine is seen sleeping and emitting Z's above her head. In Wake The Sleepers , in the middle of a conversation.
Everyone in Roommates Brawl in the Family does this to Meta Knight as he is sleeping, and both Kirby and Jigglypuff after falling asleep during Kirby's song. Done in a Nuzlocke comic called "Petty's LeafGreen Nuzlocke" in the beginning of the comic , where Locke ends up doing this in the first panel. Dragon Mango when Mango and Cherry fall asleep during Bleu Berry's introduction when the king and princess fall asleep during the budget discussion. Mango weaponizes the weakness to get her asleep again -- with more z's In Ava's Demon , falling asleep after seeing what happened to Ava.
Since Grace is in a half-cat form at the time she's purring instead of snoring. In Urban Underbrush , falling asleep in jail. In Erstwhile , the soldier feigns sleep and gets them. In Cucumber Quest , Almond really doesn't want to attend the concert. In Outsider , Tempo's explanation of the history of the war between the Loroi and Umiak apparently puts Beryl to sleep. Freefall : When Florence falls asleep, singular Zs are used.
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