Dialogue

 1 Craty|          or a mere inarticulate sound (a fallacy which is still
 2 Craty|    expressions or imitations in sound of things. In a sense, Cratylus
 3 Craty|      three letters added to the sound—and yet this does not alter
 4 Craty|         yet amid differences of sound the etymologist may recognise
 5 Craty|         altogether different in sound from Polemarchus (chief
 6 Craty|         to avoid the ill-omened sound of destruction. The Muses
 7 Craty|        achthedon is in its very sound a burden: chapa expresses
 8 Craty|         detained by the heavier sound of gamma, then arises the
 9 Craty|       perfect correspondence of sound and meaning. But let me
10 Craty|       and the symbolical use of sound to express thought, but
11 Craty|     that ‘language is imitative sound,’ which is the greatest
12 Craty|    increase the grandeur of the sound.’ Plato was very willing
13 Craty|     distance not only hears the sound, but apprehends the meaning:
14 Craty|       the moment of hearing the sound, without any appreciable
15 Craty|       lost, is now revived; the sound again echoes to the sense;
16 Craty|         and the half articulate sound gradually developed into
17 Craty|        minds the meaning or the sound or the construction of the
18 Craty|      many chance attractions of sound or of meaning, or of both
19 Craty|         the laws of euphony and sound, the affinities of letters,
20 Craty|         nature and divisions of sound; we may be truly said to
21 Craty|     words so small in which the sound is an echo of the sense?
22 Craty|     origin coalesce in the same sound though retaining their differences
23 Craty|       remembers and repeats the sound which he has heard. The
24 Craty|       There was a proportion of sound to sound, of meaning to
25 Craty|        a proportion of sound to sound, of meaning to meaning,
26 Craty|       to meaning, of meaning to sound. The cases and numbers of
27 Craty|        analogy or similarity of sound and meaning. In by far the
28 Craty|        to say that a particular sound corresponds to a motion
29 Craty|     higher uses of language the sound is the echo of the sense,
30 Craty|         of things or actions in sound, although a letter or two
31 Craty|        which the fulness of the sound of the word corresponds
32 Craty|       has the meaning of a deep sound. We may observe also (as
33 Craty|   expressed by gesticulation. A sound or word is not the work
34 Craty|    nouns and verbs analogous in sound and sense to one another,
35 Craty|    sense became first allied to sound; but we have no difficulty
36 Craty|      regulate the variations of sound are (a) double or differing
37 Craty|        are told that changes of sound take place by innumerable
38 Craty|       influences of meaning and sound, of logic and grammar, of
39 Craty| attended by the result that the sound of the words has been carefully
40 Craty|         pleasing variety to the sound. And the mind equally rejects
41 Craty|       There are associations of sound and of sense by which every
42 Craty|     words have a fixed form and sound. Lexicons assign to each
43 Craty|       omit one of the iotas and sound the middle syllable grave
44 Craty|         to avoid the ill-omened sound of destruction (apolon).
45 Craty|    increase the grandeur of the sound.~HERMOGENES: How do you
46 Craty|       follows: All objects have sound and figure, and many have
47 Craty|        as there is a colour, or sound? And is there not an essence
48 Craty|        an essence of colour and sound as well as of anything else
49 Craty|       and the like: the heavier sound of gamma detained the slipping
50 Craty|         hence he introduced the sound in endos and entos: alpha
51 Craty|     words would be an unmeaning sound like the noise of hammering
52 Craty|       but convention? I utter a sound which I understand, and
53 Craty|   understand the meaning of the sound: this is what you are saying?~