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There was an interesting paper at the last Cognitive Linguistics
conference in which someone went to considerable lengths to calculate
the proportion of figurative to literal usage of "blaring" (as I
remember it, anyway), when the great majority of figurative instances
were things like "blaring error" or "blaring mistake" (Google 420,
631); apparently the author was unaware of the much more common
alternatives "glaring error", "glaring mistake" (Google 119K, 46.5K),
etc. <br>
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"flare" up, some meanings of "spare" or "pare" might possibly sort of
fit ... There's probably some sort of synaesthesia going on in a number
of these cases. Having something/someone glare at you does to you
visually what having someone or something blare at you does auditorily.<br>
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It's fun to make "morphemic" charts of things like <br>
<br>
flare flap flop flip flick(er) flash
flirt float(?) etc. ("fl" means the kind of flipping motion
your tongue makes in the airstream as you say it)<br>
stare - stop(?) stipple(?) stick stash
-- stoat(???)<br>
- rap - rip -
rash(?) -- ---<br>
- slap slop slip slick
slash -- --- ("sl" means a slishy slushy
slithery sliding motion, again iconic to what your tongue does.)<br>
- tap top(?) tip tick <br>
- clap clop clip click
clash <br>
- trap - trip trick trash<br>
- lap lop lip lick
lash <br>
<br>
ap means a short sharp smart blow<br>
ip means something a bit less, but hard to describe<br>
ash means something "noisy" whose effects last behind it<br>
<br>
(all of above is "sort of", "so to speak", etc...)<br>
<br>
It's fun to see if you can make a story about how these things fit
together. You have to have an imagination, but there's clearly
something there to talk about. To my mind it's one of the most
fascinating and fun parts of English.<br>
<br>
--David Tuggy<br>
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Kim Blewett wrote:
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<font size="-1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Or even "dare"-- to
(intensely) compel someone to do something they're uncomfortable with?<br>
Kim</font></font><br>
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<blockquote cite="mid45DEF18A.5090802@sil.org" type="cite">Fritz
Goerling wrote:
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style="font-size: 12pt;">Alan,<o></o></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o> </o></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Would “to
bare” fit: … to
bare one’s teeth threateningly enough …?<o></o></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o> </o></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o> </o></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Fritz
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Last
Saturday, talking about how hot the sun had been when I went jogging
that
afternoon, I said that the sun had “blared” at me the whole time.
Then thinking about what I had just said, I corrected myself – “no,
I think the word is “glared”. But that slip-up made me wonder if
there’s some real connection between the following words:<o></o></span></font><o></o></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o> </o></span></font><o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">blare
– for something (like a radio) to make a sound intense enough that you
want to plug your ears<o></o></span></font><o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">glare
– for something (like the sun) to emit light bright enough that you
need
to squint or close your eyes<o></o></span></font><o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">stare
– for someone to look at you intently enough to make you feel
uncomfortable<o></o></span></font><o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o> </o></span></font><o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">They all
seem to share the idea of an intensity that’s too intense for comfort.
And they all share that a-r-e ending. What would you call that piece of
the
word? Is it a morpheme? Or maybe something on a sub-morphemic level?<o></o></span></font><o></o></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o> </o></span></font><o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">It would be
interesting to know if anything along these lines has been researched.
It might
shed some light on things I’ve seen in Austronesian languages –
things which also sometimes seem to carry meaning on a level below that
of the
morpheme.<o></o></span></font><o></o></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Allan J.<o></o></span></font><o></o></p>
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