Ideophone vs Onomatopoiea: The Civil War
However, as he grew up, he started showing
interest in other things beyond the sounds. He liked the colors of the grass
and the sky, he liked how flowers smell, so he liked nature very much. One day,
he discovered how to imitate these properties of nature and from that moment,
he learned how to create words from colors and smells. Every day he learned something new, every day
he created new words. But he did all his activities in secret because he feared
his mother’s reaction.
Once Ideophone went to the city to visit his
people and see how they lived. As he was walking, he saw people moving. He
couldn’t resist: he created words from the movements he saw. After that he saw
a girl laughing. He immediately created a new word. Then he saw a man crying. A
new word arose again. He became capable
of making words which resembled movements and emotions. Ideophone’s talents
went very far beyond Onomatopoiea’s.
The queen learned about Ideophone’s talent and
his disobedience to the rules, because some languages came to the queen to
complain. The Korean language complained because Ideophone created a new
separate word class in the Korean structure. The Mundang language complained because
the prince infected several of her word classes. The Japanese language
complained because Ideophone’s creations occur within her utterances and they
are inseparable from the other elements of the utterance.
Onomatopoiea got very angry because she couldn’t
allow him to create new words in different ways. She couldn’t allow to develop
new abilities. She wanted him to follow the queen’s way of creation. She got so
angry that she decided to punish him by forbidding from using his talents.
However, Ideophone had already created so many
new words which showed a high degree of grammatical independence, that he could
initiate a civil war against his mother. He got stronger and stronger because
he never stopped the creation. In the end, Ideophone usurped the queen and
became the king of Glottaland. However, there were other pretenders to the
crown too…