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[arethinn]

"But that's mimetic. It's gestural onomatopoeia."

Okay, whoa there self, rein in the five-dollar words; there's no call to be talking like that.

I seriously just uttered that sentence (again with the fancy words? you can't say "said that"?). We were talking about the "money" gesture (palm up, rubbing thumb and first two fingers together) and I wondered how widely understood it was; enotsola did the same upside down, which looks like sprinkling something, hence the remark about miming a real action.

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[digitalsidhe]

Actually, I like the phrase "gestural onomatopoeia". I'm going to have to use it the next time I see someone playing air guitar.

[andros_b]

I like the phrase, but not sure if onomatopœia is the right phrase. A lot of gestures like that depend on cultural context.