linguistic questions

[Robert Lawless]

Ha! You thought I didn't notice that nobody answered my son's question
about how people come up with words. Is linguistics so dominated by
Saussurean notions of arbitrariness that nobody looks into alternatives
like sound symbolism (or sound iconicity)? Robert.
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