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So today, I kind of thought it would be fun to talk about onomanapoeia.
And that's a fun word to say just by itself.
Ana Manapia.
And the spelling is terrible because there's a silent t for some reason, but onomatopoeia?
What is onomanapoeia?
Let me field this one, because I used to watch this show called a Batman, but a very, very old version of Batman when I was a kid.
And every time Batman punched a bad guy like the Joker, instead of seeing the fist hit the Joker's face, there would be a big bubble on the screen and it would say, pow, pow.
Bam.
I watched that Batman.
Yeah, bam.
Something like that.
Boom.
So, yeah, all of those examples are examples of onomatopoeia.
Right.
So an onomatopoeia, then, is basically a word that represents a sound of some kind.
Yeah, yeah, it's a sound word.
And adamantopias are really fun because they're different in different languages.